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This is a basic motion detector lab in which a cart is released from a standing position , allowed to roll down an inclined plane, hit a magnetic bumper, rebound back a bit, and repeat. Graphs of displacement, velocity, and acceleration are analyzed. * I've left all of my labs in word format so that the user can tailor them accordingly to suit their needs. We're in this together, after all.Free -
File Name: PASCO: Acceleration on inclined plane File Submitter: davekozski File Submitted: 06 Feb 2015 File Category: Kinematics This is a basic motion detector lab in which a cart is released from a standing position , allowed to roll down an inclined plane, hit a magnetic bumper, rebound back a bit, and repeat. Graphs of displacement, velocity, and acceleration are analyzed. * I've left all of my labs in word format so that the user can tailor them accordingly to suit their needs. We're in this together, after all. -
In order to use Newton’s Second Law, you need to correctly draw the Free Body Diagram. This problem explains a common mistake students make involving the force applied. We also review how to find acceleration on a velocity as a function of time graph. Content Times: 0:22 The problem 0:54 Listing our known values 1:51 Drawing the Free Body Diagram 2:17 A common mistake in our Free Body Diagram 3:32 Solving the problem 4:14 Another common mistake 5:07 Why is the acceleration positive? Multilingual? [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/translate.html"]Please help translate Flipping Physics videos[/url]! Want [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/second-law-friction.html"]Lecture Notes[/url]? Next Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/third-law.html"]Introduction to Newton’s Third Law of Motion[/url] Previous Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/force-vector-addition.html"]Summing the Forces is Vector Addition[/url] [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/give.html"]1¢/minute[/url]
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We experimentally determine the position, velocity and acceleration as a function of time for a street hockey puck that is sliding and slowing down. Is it uniformly accelerated motion? Content Times: 0:16 Experimental graph of position as a function of time 0:43 Deciding what the graph of velocity as a function of time ideally should be 1:35 Experimental graph of velocity as a function of time 2:11 Deciding what the graph of acceleration as a function of time ideally should be 2:57 Experimental graph of acceleration as a function of time Multilingual? [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/translate.html"]Please help translate Flipping Physics videos[/url]! Want [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/measuring-uam.html"]Lecture Notes[/url]? Next Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/reviewing-one-dimensional-motion.html"]Reviewing One Dimensional Motion with the Table of Friends[/url] Previous Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/graphical-uam-example.html"]Graphical UAM Example Problem[/url] [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/give.html"]1¢/minute[/url]
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Name: Experimentally Graphing Uniformly Accelerated Motion Category: Kinematics Date Added: 16 January 2015 - 09:38 AM Submitter: Flipping Physics Short Description: None Provided We experimentally determine the position, velocity and acceleration as a function of time for a street hockey puck that is sliding and slowing down. Is it uniformly accelerated motion? Content Times: 0:16 Experimental graph of position as a function of time 0:43 Deciding what the graph of velocity as a function of time ideally should be 1:35 Experimental graph of velocity as a function of time 2:11 Deciding what the graph of acceleration as a function of time ideally should be 2:57 Experimental graph of acceleration as a function of time Multilingual? View Video -
Name: Using Newton's Second Law to find the Force of Friction Category: Dynamics Date Added: 12 January 2015 - 11:59 AM Submitter: Flipping Physics Short Description: None Provided In order to use Newton’s Second Law, you need to correctly draw the Free Body Diagram. This problem explains a common mistake students make involving the force applied. We also review how to find acceleration on a velocity as a function of time graph. Content Times: 0:22 The problem 0:54 Listing our known values 1:51 Drawing the Free Body Diagram 2:17 A common mistake in our Free Body Diagram 3:32 Solving the problem 4:14 Another common mistake 5:07 Why is the acceleration positive? Multilingual? View Video
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Students sometimes have a difficult time understanding what acceleration in meters per second squared really means. Therefore, I present acceleration as meters per second every second instead. This helps students gain a better conceptual understanding of acceleration. Content Times: 0:12 Acceleration is meters per second every second 1:22 The first demonstration 1:56 Finding the velocity at each second 3:18 Finding the position at each second 4:31 The second demonstration Multilingual? [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/translate.html"]Please help translate Flipping Physics videos![/url] Want [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/understanding-uam.html"]Lecture Notes?[/url] Next Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/the-humility-soapbox-ndash-uniformly-vs-uniformally.html"]The Humility Soapbox – Uniformly vs. Uniformally[/url] Previous Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/toy-car-uam-problem.html"]Toy Car UAM Problem with Two Difference Accelerations[/url] [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/give.html"]1¢/minute[/url]
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Name: Understanding Uniformly Accelerated Motion Category: Kinematics Date Added: 09 December 2014 - 02:05 PM Submitter: Flipping Physics Short Description: None Provided Students sometimes have a difficult time understanding what acceleration in meters per second squared really means. Therefore, I present acceleration as meters per second every second instead. This helps students gain a better conceptual understanding of acceleration. Content Times: 0:12 Acceleration is meters per second every second 1:22 The first demonstration 1:56 Finding the velocity at each second 3:18 Finding the position at each second 4:31 The second demonstration Multilingual? View Video
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The application of Newton’s Second Law is when you really understand what the net force equals mass times acceleration where both force and acceleration are vectors really means. Therefore, we introduce Newton’s Second Law and then do an example problem. Content Times: 0:11 Defining Newton’s Second Law 1:00 The example problem 1:51 Drawing the Free Body Diagram 2:48 The Force of Gravity 3:42 The net force in the y-direction 5:28 The acceleration of the book in the y-direction 6:38 The net force in the x-direction 7:59 Solving for the dimensions of acceleration 8:54 Constant net force means constant acceleration Multilingual? [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/translate.html"]Please help translate Flipping Physics videos![/url] Want [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/second-law.html"]Lecture Notes[/url]? Next Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/second-law-demo.html"]Introductory Newton's 2nd Law Example Problem and Demonstration[/url] Previous Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/reality-of-fbd.html"]The Reality of our first Free Body Diagram[/url] [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/give.html"]1¢/minute[/url]
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Name: Introduction to Newton’s Second Law of Motion with Example Problem Category: Dynamics Date Added: 21 November 2014 - 02:38 PM Submitter: Flipping Physics Short Description: None Provided The application of Newton’s Second Law is when you really understand what the net force equals mass times acceleration where both force and acceleration are vectors really means. Therefore, we introduce Newton’s Second Law and then do an example problem. Content Times: 0:11 Defining Newton’s Second Law 1:00 The example problem 1:51 Drawing the Free Body Diagram 2:48 The Force of Gravity 3:42 The net force in the y-direction 5:28 The acceleration of the book in the y-direction 6:38 The net force in the x-direction 7:59 Solving for the dimensions of acceleration 8:54 Constant net force means constant acceleration Multilingual? View Video
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Three major differences between weight and mass are discussed and three media examples of weight in kilograms are presented (and you should know that weight is NOT in kilograms). Content Times: 0:18 Base SI dimensions for weight and mass 1:25 NASA: weight in kilograms 1:38 Michio Kaku: weight in kilograms 1:52 Derek Muller of Veritasium: weight in kilograms 2:30 Weight is a vector and mass is a scalar 2:53 Weight is extrinsic and mass is intrinsic 3:52 Comparing weight and mass on the Earth and the moon 4:45 Space elevators Multilingual? [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/translate.html"]Please help translate Flipping Physics videos![/url] Want [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/weight-not-mass.html"]Lecture Notes[/url]? Next Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/free-body-diagrams.html"][color=rgb(0,0,0)][font=Helvetica][size=3]Introduction to Free Body Diagrams or Force Diagrams[/size][/font][/color][/url] Previous Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/force-of-gravity.html"]Introduction to the Force of Gravity and Gravitational Mass[/url] [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/give.html"]1¢/minute[/url] Weight in kilograms in the media: NASA: [url="http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/what-was-the-saturn-v-58.html#.VElQ7r5gngp"]What Was the Saturn V?[/url] The Physics of the Impossible by [url="http://mkaku.org"]Michio Kaku[/url] Thank you Derek Muller of [url="https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium"]Veritasium[/url] for letting me use a 10 second clip of one of your videos. I hope you agree that, as promised, I did not deride you. Pictures: Moon [url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/FullMoon2010.jpg"]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/FullMoon2010.jpg[/url] - By Gregory H. Revera (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ([url="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"]http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0[/url]) or GFDL ([url="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"]http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html[/url])], via Wikimedia Commons International Space Station - [url="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AISS_after_completion_(as_of_June_2006).jpg%20By"]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AISS_after_completion_(as_of_June_2006).jpg[/url] By NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons from Wikimedia Commons Earth - you won’t find the permissions for that picture here, because I took that picture and so I OWN IT!!! Yep, i took that picture. [Did you really read this far? wow.] It’s actually a picture of Science on a Sphere at The Detroit Zoo. [url="http://www.detroitzoo.org/attractions/science-on-a-sphere"]http://www.detroitzoo.org/attractions/science-on-a-sphere[/url]
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Name: Weight and Mass are Not the Same Category: Dynamics Date Added: 10 November 2014 - 10:20 AM Submitter: Flipping Physics Short Description: None Provided Three major differences between weight and mass are discussed and three media examples of weight in kilograms are presented (and you should know that weight is NOT in kilograms). Content Times: 0:18 Base SI dimensions for weight and mass 1:25 NASA: weight in kilograms 1:38 Michio Kaku: weight in kilograms 1:52 Derek Muller of Veritasium: weight in kilograms 2:30 Weight is a vector and mass is a scalar 2:53 Weight is extrinsic and mass is intrinsic 3:52 Comparing weight and mass on the Earth and the moon 4:45 Space elevators Multilingual? View Video
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Name: Introduction to Force Category: Dynamics Date Added: 2016-10-27 Submitter: Flipping Physics Defining Force. Including its dimensions, demonstrations of force and mass affecting acceleration, showing that a force is an interaction between two objects and contact vs. field forces. Content Times: 0:11 Defining force 0:56 Demonstrating how force and mass affect acceleration 2:15 Demonstrating why a force doesn’t necessarily cause acceleration 4:09 Force is a vector 4:23 A force is an interaction between to objects 4:56 Contact vs field forces 5:38 The force of gravity is a field force 6:19 Face and snow force interaction Want Lecture Notes? Multilingual? Please help translate Flipping Physics videos! Next Video: Introduction to the Force of Gravity and Gravitational Mass Previous Video: Introduction to Inertia and Inertial Mass 1¢/minute Introduction to Force
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Projectile motion is composed of a horizontal and a vertical component. This video shows that via a side-by-side video demonstration and also builds the velocity and acceleration vector diagram. Content Times: 0:14 Reviewing Projectile Motion 1:00 Introducing each of the video components 1:40 Building the x-direction velocity vectors 2:15 Building the y-direction velocity vectors 3:12 Combing velocity vectors to get resultant velocity vectors 3:41 Showing how we created the resultant velocity vectors 4:47 Adding acceleration vectors in the y-direction 5:28 Adding acceleration vectors in the x-direction 5:45 Completing the Velocity and Acceleration diagram 5:58 The diagram floating over clouds, i mean, why not, eh? Want [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/components-of-projectile-motion.html"]Lecture Notes[/url]? Multilingual? Please help [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/translate.html"]translate Flipping Physics videos[/url]! Next Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/skateboarding.html"]Skateboarding Frame of Reference Demonstration[/url] Previous Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/bullet.html"]The Classic Bullet Projectile Motion Experiment[/url] [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/give.html"]1¢/minute[/url]
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Name: Demonstrating the Components of Projectile Motion Category: Kinematics Date Added: 12 August 2014 - 10:30 AM Submitter: Flipping Physics Short Description: None Provided Projectile motion is composed of a horizontal and a vertical component. This video shows that via a side-by-side video demonstration and also builds the velocity and acceleration vector diagram. Content Times: 0:14 Reviewing Projectile Motion 1:00 Introducing each of the video components 1:40 Building the x-direction velocity vectors 2:15 Building the y-direction velocity vectors 3:12 Combing velocity vectors to get resultant velocity vectors 3:41 Showing how we created the resultant velocity vectors 4:47 Adding acceleration vectors in the y-direction 5:28 Adding acceleration vectors in the x-direction 5:45 Completing the Velocity and Acceleration diagram 5:58 The diagram floating over clouds, i mean, why not, eh? Want View Video
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An advanced free-fall acceleration problem involving 2 parts and 2 objects. Problem: You are wearing your rocket pack (total mass = 75 kg) that accelerates you upward at a constant 10.5 m/s^2. While preparing to take pictures of the beautiful view, you drop your camera 5.0 seconds after liftoff. 5.0 seconds after you drop the camera, (a) what is the camera's velocity and (b) how far are you from the camera? Content Times: 0:17 Reading the problem 1:26 Understanding the problem using a picture 2:10 Listing every known variable 3:22 Which part do we start solving first? 3:47 What do we solve for in part 1? 4:46 That's a lot of subscripts, why? 5:24 Starting to solve the problem. Finding the final velocity for part 1. 6:32 Solving for the final velocity for part 2 for the camera 7:46 Why is the final velocity for part 2 for the camera positive? 9:10 Finding the displacement for part 2 for the camera 9:55 Finding the displacement for part 2 for you 10:42 Finding the distance between you and the camera at the very end 11:27 The Review [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/dont-drop-your-camera.html"]Want Lecture Notes?[/url] Next Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/vectors-and-scalars.html"]Introduction to Tip-to-Tail Vector Addition, Vectors and Scalars[/url] Previous Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/dropping-dictionaries.html"]Dropping Dictionaries Doesn't Defy Gravity, Duh![/url]
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Name: Don't Drop Your Camera 5.0 Seconds After Liftoff Category: Kinematics Date Added: 22 May 2014 - 04:31 PM Submitter: Flipping Physics Short Description: None Provided An advanced free-fall acceleration problem involving 2 parts and 2 objects. Problem: You are wearing your rocket pack (total mass = 75 kg) that accelerates you upward at a constant 10.5 m/s^2. While preparing to take pictures of the beautiful view, you drop your camera 5.0 seconds after liftoff. 5.0 seconds after you drop the camera, (a) what is the camera's velocity and ( how far are you from the camera? Content Times: 0:17 Reading the problem 1:26 Understanding the problem using a picture 2:10 Listing every known variable 3:22 Which part do we start solving first? 3:47 What do we solve for in part 1? 4:46 That's a lot of subscripts, why? 5:24 Starting to solve the problem. Finding the final velocity for part 1. 6:32 Solving for the final velocity for part 2 for the camera 7:46 Why is the final velocity for part 2 for the camera positive? 9:10 Finding the displacement for part 2 for the camera 9:55 Finding the displacement for part 2 for you 10:42 Finding the distance between you and the camera at the very end 11:27 The Review Want Lecture Notes? Next Video: Introduction to Tip-to-Tail Vector Addition, Vectors and Scalars Previous Video: Dropping Dictionaries Doesn't Defy Gravity, Duh! View Video
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Video Proof of the Mass Independence of the Acceleration due to Gravity and a little dancing. Content Times: 0:14 Reviewing the mass independence of free-fall acceleration. 0:56 1 book 1:36 What's a boom box? 2:07 All 4 videos together 2:31 We can dance if we want to 3:25 Thank you very much for learning with me today [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/dropping-dictionaries.html"]Want Lecture Notes?[/url] Next Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/dont-drop-your-camera.html"]Don't Drop Your Camera 5.0 Seconds After Liftoff[/url] Previous Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/free-fall-problem.html"]A Free-Fall Problem That You Must Split Into Two Parts[/url] Picture Permissions: Boom Box - By Jmpicot (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ([url="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"]http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0[/url])], via Wikimedia Commons
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Name: Dropping Dictionaries Doesn't Defy Gravity, Duh! Category: Kinematics Date Added: 22 May 2014 - 04:29 PM Submitter: Flipping Physics Short Description: None Provided Video Proof of the Mass Independence of the Acceleration due to Gravity and a little dancing. Content Times: 0:14 Reviewing the mass independence of free-fall acceleration. 0:56 1 book 1:36 What's a boom box? 2:07 All 4 videos together 2:31 We can dance if we want to 3:25 Thank you very much for learning with me today View Video
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We talk about a lot of graphs in the theoretical sense. In this video we are actually going to create a position versus time graph in a real sense. By using stop motion photography and stopping a ball at various intervals while falling, we will create a position as a function of time graph. Content Times: 0:23 Identifying the Position vs. Time graph we are going to create 0:46 A single video slice of free-fall 1:19 Slow the video down to 1/8th speed 1:50 Creating the graph 2:10 Proving that reality matches the graph [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/stop-motion-photography.html"]Want Lecture Notes?[/url] Next Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/common-free-fall-pitfalls.html"]Common Free-Fall Pitfalls[/url] Previous Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/drop-and-upward-throw.html"]The Drop and Upward Throw of a Ball are Very Similar[/url]
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Name: Creating a Position vs. Time Graph using Stop Motion Photography Category: Kinematics Date Added: 22 May 2014 - 04:26 PM Submitter: Flipping Physics Short Description: None Provided We talk about a lot of graphs in the theoretical sense. In this video we are actually going to create a position versus time graph in a real sense. By using stop motion photography and stopping a ball at various intervals while falling, we will create a position as a function of time graph. Content Times: 0:23 Identifying the Position vs. Time graph we are going to create 0:46 A single video slice of free-fall 1:19 Slow the video down to 1/8th speed 1:50 Creating the graph 2:10 Proving that reality matches the graph View Video
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Previously we determined the motion graphs for dropping a ball from 2.0 meters and throwing a ball up to 2.0 meters and catching it again. In this video I show that the reverse of the drop coupled with the drop itself is the same thing as throwing the ball upward. Make sense? Okay, watch the video. Content Times: 0:13 Reviewing the previous graphs 0:25 The drop is the same as the 2nd half of the drop 0:48 Dropping the medicine ball in reverse 1:16 Bobby reviews 1:35 Links to Previous and Next Videos [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/drop-and-upward-throw.html"]Want Lecture Notes?[/url] Next Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/stop-motion-photography.html"]Creating a Position vs. Time Graph using Stop Motion Photography[/url] Previous Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/throwing-a-ball.html"]Throwing a Ball up to 2.0 Meters & Proving the Velocity at the Top is Zero[/url]
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Name: The Drop and Upward Throw of a Ball are Very Similar Category: Kinematics Date Added: 22 May 2014 - 04:25 PM Submitter: Flipping Physics Short Description: None Provided Previously we determined the motion graphs for dropping a ball from 2.0 meters and throwing a ball up to 2.0 meters and catching it again. In this video I show that the reverse of the drop coupled with the drop itself is the same thing as throwing the ball upward. Make sense? Okay, watch the video. Content Times: 0:13 Reviewing the previous graphs 0:25 The drop is the same as the 2nd half of the drop 0:48 Dropping the medicine ball in reverse 1:16 Bobby reviews 1:35 Links to Previous and Next Videos View Video
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In the previous lesson we dropped a ball from 2.0 meters above the ground and now we throw one up to a height of 2.0 meters. We do this in order to understand the similarities between the two events. Oh, and of course we draw some graphs. This is an Introductory Free-Fall Acceleration Problem Content Times: 0:18 Reviewing the previous lesson 0:34 Reading the new problem 1:26 Acceleration vs. time 1:59 Velocity vs. time 2:49 Position vs. time 4:16 The Velocity at the top is ZERO! 5:50 Comparing throwing the ball to dropping the ball 6:56 Finding the total change in time 7:44 Finding the velocity initial 9:47 The Review [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/throwing-a-ball.html"]Want Lecture Notes?[/url] Next Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/drop-and-upward-throw.html"]The Drop and Upward Throw of a Ball are Very Similar[/url] Previous Video: [url="http://www.flippingphysics.com/graphing-the-drop-of-a-ball.html"]Graphing the Drop of a Ball from 2.0 Meters[/url] - An Introductory Free-Fall Acceleration Problem
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Name: Throwing a Ball up to 2.0 Meters & Proving the Velocity at the Top is Zero Category: Kinematics Date Added: 22 May 2014 - 04:23 PM Submitter: Flipping Physics Short Description: None Provided In the previous lesson we dropped a ball from 2.0 meters above the ground and now we throw one up to a height of 2.0 meters. We do this in order to understand the similarities between the two events. Oh, and of course we draw some graphs. This is an Introductory Free-Fall Acceleration Problem Content Times: 0:18 Reviewing the previous lesson 0:34 Reading the new problem 1:26 Acceleration vs. time 1:59 Velocity vs. time 2:49 Position vs. time 4:16 The Velocity at the top is ZERO! 5:50 Comparing throwing the ball to dropping the ball 6:56 Finding the total change in time 7:44 Finding the velocity initial 9:47 The Review View Video