Chapter 5 Key Terms

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Across
  1. 1. a quantity possessing only magnitude.
  2. 7. rapidity of motion or operation; swiftness; speed
  3. 8. the speed at a specific instant of time.
  4. 9. An objects distance and direction from a reference point.
  5. 10. the process of changing position.
  6. 11. a scalar quantity that describes the distance an object moves in a certain length of time.
  7. 12. when an objects speed or direction change for each time interval.
  8. 13. a starting point used to describe the position of something
  9. 15. when an object travels at the same speed and the same direction for each time interval
  10. 18. the linear or angular distance in a given direction between a body or point and a reference position.
Down
  1. 2. the distance traveled by an object divided by the time it takes to travel that distance.
  2. 3. the velocity at a specific instant
  3. 4. the displacement of an object divided by the time interval it takes to travel the displacement.
  4. 5. when an object travels the same distance for each time interval.
  5. 6. when an objects speed or distance change for each time interval.
  6. 14. Motion in which the objects displacement is equal for each time interval.
  7. 16. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude.
  8. 17. the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines.