Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Acceleration

In Physics, we have been working with acceleration and other elements of kinematic formulas. In order to force our minds to understand these elements in a fun way, Mrs. Gende asked us to create a Tagxedo showing some important words when dealing with kinematics, and make a Pixton cartoon explaining an important part of kinematics. I chose to explain acceleration. Acceleration is a vector quantity, with both magnitude and force, which is defined as being the change in velocity over time. Velocity is also a vector quantity, so I guess acceleration is sort of a double vector. Or not. In any case, acceleration is found by dividing velocity, m/s, by time, s, thus giving us units of m/s^2.

2 comments:

  1. Your introduction is great, except when you "guessed acceleration is a double vector" you shouldn't guess things in an introduction. I realy enjoyed the comic, I liked the concept of the rhetorical question. The only problem was that on one or two of the slides the font was larger.
    -Adam

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  2. Very creative Tagxedo!
    I agree with Adam's comment. Also please make a correction to your statement that " Acceleration is a vector quantity, with both magnitude and force". Force?
    Your comic strip is very original!

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