ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses deriving and using the equations of motion that describe the time dependence of an object’s displacement, velocity, and acceleration. Relationships between displacement, velocity, and acceleration are also of importance and will be derived. This chapter starts with the basic definitions of displacement and average velocity of an object moving in one dimension. Such a simplified start will help to lead a complete set of equations of motion for an object moving along one dimension, east-west, north-south, or up and down. In the context of coordinate systems that were treated in the previous chapter, the one-dimensional motion will reduce the time and effort needed on the study of motion in two dimensions, which is the subject of the next chapter.
