- "In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions."
The location of an object in space.
Distance and displacement: Distinction between distance and displacement, calculating these values in one dimension and two dimensions.
Speed and velocity: Distinction between speed and velocity, calculating average and instantaneous speed and velocity in one dimension and two dimensions.
Acceleration: Definition of acceleration, calculating average and instantaneous acceleration, graphical representations of acceleration.
Uniformly accelerated motion: Equations of motion for uniformly accelerated motion, application of these equations in solving problems.
Projectile motion: Analysis of motion of an object projected at an angle, separation of motion into horizontal and vertical components, related equations for horizontal and vertical motion.
Relative motion: Analysis of motion of two objects in motion relative to each other, vector addition of velocities.
Circular motion: Analysis of motion in a circular path, calculation of centripetal acceleration, angular velocity, and angular acceleration.
Graphical analysis of motion: Position-time and velocity-time graphs, interpretation of graphical representations of motion.
Displacement-time and acceleration-time graphs: Interpretation of these graphs.
Kinematic equations: Derivation of kinematic equations, application of kinematic equations in problem-solving.
Rest: The position of an object that is not moving.
Translation: The motion of an object in a straight line.
Rotation: The motion of an object around a fixed axis or point.
Circular motion: A motion where an object moves in a circular path.
Oscillatory motion: A motion where an object repeats a back-and-forth motion around a central point.
Linear motion: A type of translation motion where an object is moving in a straight line.
Curvilinear motion: A motion where an object moves along a curved path.
Projectile motion: A type of motion where an object is thrown or launched into the air and subsequently follows a path determined by gravity.
Planetary motion: A type of motion where a celestial object moves around a star or planet in an elliptical path.
Relative motion: The motion of an object with respect to another reference point or object.
- "Modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime."
- "The concept of space is considered to be of fundamental importance to an understanding of the physical universe."
- "Disagreement continues between philosophers over whether it is itself an entity, a relationship between entities, or part of a conceptual framework."
- "Debates concerning the nature, essence, and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity."
- "Namely, to treatises like the Timaeus of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called khôra (i.e. 'space'), or in the Physics of Aristotle (Book IV, Delta)."
- "In Isaac Newton's view, space was absolute—in the sense that it existed permanently and independently of whether there was any matter in the space."
- "Other natural philosophers, notably Gottfried Leibniz, thought instead that space was in fact a collection of relations between objects."
- "The philosopher and theologian George Berkeley attempted to refute the 'visibility of spatial depth' in his Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision."
- "The metaphysician Immanuel Kant said that the concepts of space and time are not empirical ones derived from experiences of the outside world—they are elements of an already given systematic framework that humans possess and use to structure all experiences."
- "In the 19th and 20th centuries mathematicians began to examine geometries that are non-Euclidean, in which space is conceived as curved, rather than flat."
- "According to Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, space around gravitational fields deviates from Euclidean space."
- "Experimental tests of general relativity have confirmed that non-Euclidean geometries provide a better model for the shape of space." Please note that the following quotes are selected from the provided paragraph and may not fully answer the study questions but provide relevant information.