Forces 1&2 vocabulary

A set of points or objects used to determine relative movement

• distance

• frame of reference

• magnitude

• velocity

The linear distance and direction between two points of reference

• displacement

• distance

• speed

• velocity

The rate at which an object changes position from one location to another

• frame of refference

• distance

• speed

• velocity

The measure of the total pathway taken between two points

• speed

• displacement

• velocity

• distance

The size of a quantity

• scalar

• displacement

• Magnitude

• velocity

The process of an object changing position from one location to another

• magnitude

• motion

• position

• vector

The location of an object within a physical frame of reference

• position

• Magnitude

• motion

• scalar

Quantities that are described by magnitude alone

• displacement

• vectors

• velocity

• scalars

Quantities that are described by both magnitude and direction

• motion

• vectors

• scalars

• displacements

Measurement of the speed and direction of an object

• velocity

• magnitude

• speed

• position