Physics 1
Kinematics Notes
One-Dimensional Motion


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What is One-Dimensional Motion?

In our study of kinematics, we will (mostly) restrict ourselves to one-dimensional motions - that is, motions along a straight line. Some examples of one-dimensional motions are:

While it is true that this excludes many interesting motions - the motion of a baseball hit to center field is a two-dimensional motion, for example - there are at least two reasons for restricting our current study to one-dimensional motions:


Links:

One Dimensional Motion - a page from the Zona Land tutorial - very nice, but you'll need a VRML plug-in to view the animations..


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