position, displacement and average velocity
Our universe is full of objects in motion. From the stars, planets, and galaxies; to the motion af people and animals; down to the microscopic scale of atoms and molecules-everything in our universe is in motion. We can describe motion using the two disciplines af kinematics and dynamics. We study dynamics, which is concerned with the causes of motion, in Newton's Laws of Motion; but, there is much to be learned about motion without referring to what causes it, and this is the study of kinematics. Kinematics invalves describing motion through properties such as position, time, velocity, and acceleration. A full treatment of kinematics considers motion in two and three dimensions. For now, we discuss motion in one dimension, which provides us with the tools necessary to study multidimensional motion. A good example of an object undergoing one- dimensional motion is the maglev (magnetic levitation) train depicted at the beginning of t...