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A 7 page paper that provides an overview of these two elements as they relate to velocity. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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fundamental factors (Leonard and Gerace, 1996). The most frequently evaluated and compared elements in regards to the physics of motion are distance, position displacement, velocity, speed, acceleration, momentum,
force and mass. Each one of these elements impacts the progression of movement and the way in which movement is perceived in relationship to other objects. Commonly, motion
is perceived as an element without relative influence: a ball is thrown and the ball moves. But in reality, the ball has mass, it travels with velocity, and
its momentum is determined by the specific force asserted by a persons hand. Distance and position displacement are commonly compared because they seem to mean the same
thing. Both relate to an element of change relative to the progress of motion, but they are clearly different in both meaning and determining factors (Henderson, 1997). Distance
is a scalar quantity that refers to the amount of ground that is covered by an object during the process of motion (Henderson, 1997). Displacement, on the other hand,
is a vector quantity that refers to how far out of place an object is when compared with the starting point: displacement is the objects positional change (Henderson, 1997).
In order to understand the differential between these two elements, it is also necessary to recognize the difference between scalar quantities and vector quantities. All of the
quantities within the constructs of mathematical processes used to describe motion can be divided into one of these two categories (Henderson, 1997). Scalars are quantities which are described solely
by the magnitude or size alone (plus a unit of measurement); vectors are quantities which are organized based both on a magnitude and a direction, thus providing more information than
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