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LECTURE 4
     questions after lecture

first try these again

now think about these

  • What does the word kinematics mean?
  • Compare how a spacetime diagram looks for slow and fast uniform velocity.
  • Compare how a spacetime diagram looks for speeding up and slowing down with uniform accelation.
  • Do you have a good visualization of uniform acceleration?
  • Which works best for you in understanding motion: a table, a graph, or an equation?

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Please email any questions, comments, or suggestions to Professor Bernice Durand, bdurand@theory3.physics.wisc.edu.

Revised September 4, 1997.


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