Tag: Mechanics

  • Understanding Free Fall

    Understanding Free Fall

    The sole force acting on an object or body during free fall is gravity. This external force on the object causes acceleration, which accelerates the object’s motion. Free-fall motion is therefore sometimes referred to as acceleration due to gravity in ordinary speech. Because the gravitational force, rather than the pull, is downward and has a…

  • Understanding kinematics

    Understanding kinematics

    Kinematics is very useful in the conceptual design of mechanical systems. The model takes into account the initial body velocities and geometries. Kinematics can assist in assessing a design’s theoretical viability, but designing for the real world involves additional complexity. Many theoretically conceivable designs would be likely to fail without consideration of the materials and…

  • Understanding Speed and velocity

    Understanding Speed and velocity

    In our daily life speed and velocity are something we must encounter moving from one place to another gives us the ability to actuate these two terms. Speed and velocity are related in such a way that distance and displacement are related. Speed is a scalar and velocity is a vector. The v (italic) is the…

  • Understanding acceleration

    Understanding acceleration

    Acceleration in our daily conversation means to speed up. It can occur in different applications be it transportation, human, animal, object, equipment, etc. a change in velocity of an object is known as acceleration. This is why the greater the acceleration, the greater the change in velocity over a given time Today you’ll get to…

  • Understanding distance and displacement

    Understanding distance and displacement

    In one way or the other humans move from one place to the other, this form of movement is also applicable to any sort of object. Today we will be discussing the definition, formula, differences, and examples of distance and displacement. What is a distance? A distance can be defined as the total movement of…

  • Understanding Motion

    Understanding Motion

    Having an understanding of motion we must deal with the two aspects of change in position. Distance and displacement are terms used to describe changes in position. The difference between these two is that distance is the total path length covered during a move, which can be presented only by magnitude. Whilst, displacement is the…