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Q1 Understand and use the language of kinematics, including position, displacement, distance travelled, velocity, speed and acceleration.
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Mechanics
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Kinematics language
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Q1 Understand and use the language of kinematics, including position, displacement, distance travelled, velocity, speed and acceleration
- This point belongs to Mechanics, especially Kinematics language.
- You need to be able to q1 Understand and use the language of kinematics, including position, displacement, distance travelled, velocity, speed and acceleration.
- The key ideas to know are position, distance, and displacement.
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positiondistancedisplacementaccelerationvelocityspeed
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