Base participation in the second part upon current graphing skills. You may want to go ahead and establish the data points, or assign the students to do it. We have been studying examples of constant velocity and comparing the resulting speed and position graphs. Now, we're going to go one step further. This is called constant acceleration.
Constant acceleration is the motion that occurs quite often in nature.
We are going to create graphs which are characteristic of uniformly accelerated motion. When something is speeding up, this is called acceleration. The concept of constant acceleration as a change in velocity is difficult, but you really need it to master other concepts related to force and motion. If students are working in small groups try to have at least two different slopes for comparison purposes. If the class is spread out along one long ramp, then ensure that they are spread as evenly as possible.