Monday, August 22, 2011

Moving Man

Today I used the "Moving Man" simulator to demonstrate how position, time, velocity, and acceleration relate to each other. 

     I found that when I used a higher velocity, the man walked faster to a positive position (he walked forwards toward the house). The graph below represents this and it has a positive slope. 



     Also, I found that when there was 0 velocity, and 2 acceleration, the graph showed a curve. And the man moved fast in one direction until he stopped.


     Then I tried a negative velocity and the graph turned out like this. This shows a negative slope, meaning that the Moving Man walked towards the negative numbers.


     From the many different combinations I tried, I concluded that the higher the velocity (slope) and acceleration, the faster the object will go. Also, as time passes, the distance of the object will increase/decrease too, depending on the velocity and acceleration of the object.

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