Learning Outcomes

• Determine the displacement of an object from its initial and final positions.
  • Recognize that determining the displacement of an object is a vector subtraction problem.
  • Draw the displacement vector graphically.
  • For a given coordinate system, express the initial and final position vectors in terms of their components.
  • Calculate the displacement of an object given its initial and final positions.
• Relate the average velocity of an object between two points in time to its displacement.
• Determine the average velocity of an object between two points in time.
  • Recognize that determining the average velocity of an object is a vector subtraction problem.
  • Determine the direction of the average velocity vector graphically.
  • Calculate the average velocity of an object over a known time interval given its initial and final positions.