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Motion Along a
Straight Line
Modifications by
PowerPoint® Lectures for
University Physics, Thirteenth Edition
Mike Brotherton
– Hugh D. Young and Roger A. Freedman
• Figure 2.13 shows the vx-t graph and the motion diagram
for a particle.
• Figure 2.14 shows the x-t graph and the motion diagram
for a particle.
• An object is in free
fall even when it is
moving upward.
• Instead of a ball,
let’s pretend it’s
something more
interesting like a
blood-filled
pumpkin or a human
heart.
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Is the acceleration zero at the highest point?—Figure 2.25
• The vertical
velocity, but not
the acceleration,
is zero at the
highest point.