May 21, 201412 yr Name: A Basic Acceleration Example Problem and Understanding Acceleration Direction Category: Kinematics Date Added: 21 May 2014 - 08:53 AM Submitter: Flipping Physics Short Description: None Provided This video starts with a simple acceleration problem and then addresses a commonly held misconception that a negative acceleration always means you are slowing down. I do this by way of examples. Kate (my wife) drove the Prius with a camera suction cupped to the window and videoed me riding my bike several times. In the end I ended up with four different examples on the screen at once and 25 different video layers to describe it all. I am really proud about how well it worked. Enjoy. Content Times: 0:26 Reading the problem 0:40 Seeing the problem 1:14 Translating the words to Physics 1:54 Solving the problem 3:50 Why is the number on the bike positive? 4:48 How can the bike be speeding up if the acceleration is negative? 5:50 Comparing velocity and acceleration directions 7:28 All four bike examples on the screen at the same time 7:53 Why isn't there a direction on our answer? 8:51 Outtakes or how the bike riding was filmed View Video
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