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NAME _________________________

dahee Choi DATE _______________PERIOD__________


oct 2 4

THE MOVING MAN: DISTANCE, DISPLACEMENT,


SPEED & VELOCITY
Background – Remember graphs are not just an evil thing your teacher makes you create, they are a means
of communication. Graphs are a way of communicating by using pictures and since a picture is worth a thousand
words knowing how to make and interpret graphs will save you a lot of writing.
Learning Goals – The students will:
• Develop a general knowledge of
o What graphs of a person standing still would look like
o What graphs of a person moving away from an observer at a constant speed would look
like.
o What graphs of a person moving towards an observer at a constant speed would look like.
o How differences in speed appear on the graphs

https://veillette.github.io/simulations/moving-man/

Then click on “The Moving Man”


1. Getting started. After “The Moving Man” is open leave the position graph (distance vs. time
graph) open. But close the velocity graph and the acceleration graphs by clicking on the blue minus
buttons in the right upper corner of that graph. When finished, your screen should look like screen 1
below.

Screen 1

PART A: DISTANCE and DISPLACEMENT


Procedure – Do the following activity using this web site
2. Making Observations about Distance:
A. What number and unit are written directly under the moving man? Number ________ 0 Unit_______
B. The position under the walking man which is labeled “0 meters” is called the “Reference Point”. It is
the point from which all motion will be referenced. You can use any point as a reference point but in this
case. We have chosen this point to be our starting “reference point”
C. The amount of a certain unit between the reference point and an object is called the DISTANCE.
Distance does not tell you anything about the direction from the reference point. It only has an amount
and a unit.
D. In the table below record the distances requested in meters:
NAME _________________________ DATE _______________PERIOD__________

DISTANCE FROM The House The Wall The tree


Walking Man
(reference point)
to….
8 meters 10 meters 8 meters

3. Making Observations about Displacement:


A. You may have noticed that the distance to the tree has been given a negative value while the distance
to the house has been given a positive value. Stop and think for a moment. Why do you suppose this has
been done?
B. When we add a “-“ or a “+” to the number we are indicating a direction. A “-“ sign means
“backward or behind” and a “+” sign means “forward or in front”. They indicate the direction of an
object from the chosen reference point. Adding the “+” or “-“ sign indicates DISPLACEMENT (not
distance). Displacement, like distance has an amount (magnitude) and a unit, but displacement also has
a direction. Distance does NOT have a direction. When we want to indicate direction in more than two
directions (e.g. forward and backward), we use words like north, south, east, west, northwest etc. We
can also use degrees of a circle with the reference point being the center of a circle.

D. In the table below record the distplacements requested in meters. Use “-“ and “+” to indicate
direction from the reference point (Be sure to also include an amount and a unit.)

DISPLACEMENT The House The Wall The tree


FROM Walking Man
(reference point)
to….
+ 8 meters - and + 10 meters -8 meters

What is the difference between an object’s DISTANCE and its DISPLACEMENT?

the_______________________________________________________________________
difference between distance and displacement is that, displacement is where you start and end and the path doesn't matter but for
distance, its how much you traveled and the path matter.
PART B: GRAPHING DISPLACEMENT
1.Making observations.
A) Explore: By either clicking on the man or the slider, cause the man to move back and forth and
observe what shows up on the graphs.
B) Record: Using the axis provided below make sketches of “Distance vs. Time”

10
SKETCH 1:
Distance (m)

5
A man moving from 0m 0 Time
(s)
to 10m at a slow
-5
steady pace. -10
NAME _________________________ DATE _______________PERIOD__________

10
SKETCH 2:

Distance (m)
5
A man moving from 0m 0 Time
(s)
to 10m at a fast pace.
-5
-10

10
SKETCH 3:
Distance (m)

5
A man standing still at 0 Time
(s)
4m
-5
-10

10
SKETCH 4: A man moving
Distance (m)

from 0m to 10m at a steady Time


fast pace then moving back (s)

to 0 m at a steady slow
pace.

Sketch 5: A man moving


Distance (m)

from 0 to 10 meters at an Time


ever-increasing speed (s)
-5
(acceleration)
-10

10
Sketch 6: A man
Distance (m)

5
moving from 10m to 0m 0 Time
(s)
at a steady fast pace. -5
-10

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