1st year of post-compulsory secondary education
Movement (II)
C. Palacios
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4.1 Freely falling bodies

A body falls in a vacuum from a height h. What type of movement does it show? What are the height/time and velocity/time graphs like?


Acceleration
What is it?
Average and instantaneous acceleration
Intrinsic components
Rectilinear movements (an = 0)
s/t ,v/t and a/t graphs
The meaning of the v/t graph
Circular movements (an # 0)
Angular magnitudes
Relation between angular and linear magnitudes
Graphic representations
Examples of movements
Free fall
Ascending and descending
The meeting of moving objects
Evaluation