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positive velocities. I see the appeal of forces before kinematics. But I
want to be able to refer to constant velocity vs constant acceleration as I
teach about forces. So I would leave this nit unpicked until I came back
to kinematics later.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Rauber, Joel <Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu>wrote:
One nit to pick.
Phillip K wrote in part:
But what if the ONLY things you wanted to get across were:
PART I -- here is one kind of motion we care about.
1. When an object moves at a constant speed in a straight line, its
position graph is a line.
2. In that case, the slope of that line stays constant. That slope is
the speed.
3. Since the speed is not changing, the "velocity" graph is a horizontal
line.
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The slope is the velocity not the speed. If the object were moving at a
constant speed in the opposite direction the slope would be negative, the
sign indicating the direction of the velocity vector in a 1D situation
(which I'm assuming is what is happening here). Unless you only allow
objects to move in the positive direction of how you oriented your
coordinate axis.
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