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Velocity and Acceleration

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Compliment your physics lesson with this PowerPoint which demonstrates many important points regarding acceleration and velocity. A starter experiment activity to stimulate student thinking is given, and may prove very interesting to a junior group of students.  

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acceleration, motion, speed, velocity

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acceleration, motion, relative motion, speed, velocity, distance-time graph, science
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Resource Details

Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Presentations
Audience
For Teacher Use
Number of Slides
11

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