{"id":236,"date":"2017-10-24T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/chapter\/introduction-to-two-dimensional-kinematics\/"},"modified":"2017-10-24T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:29:58","slug":"introduction-to-two-dimensional-kinematics","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/chapter\/introduction-to-two-dimensional-kinematics\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Two-Dimensional Kinematics","rendered":"Introduction to Two-Dimensional Kinematics"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"splash\" id=\"import-auto-id1165298827978\"><div class=\"bc-figcaption figcaption\">Everyday motion that we experience is, thankfully, rarely as tortuous as a rollercoaster ride like this\u2014the Dragon Khan in Spain\u2019s Universal Port Aventura Amusement Park. However, most motion is in curved, rather than straight-line, paths. Motion along a curved path is two- or three-dimensional motion, and can be described in a similar fashion to one-dimensional motion. (credit: Boris23\/Wikimedia Commons)<\/div><span id=\"import-auto-id1165298786319\">\n        <img src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/10\/Figure_03_00_01a.jpg\" alt=\"In this figure the Dragon Khan rollercoaster in Spain&#x2019;s Universal Port Aventura Amusement Park is shown. There are mostly curved paths in the rollercoaster. Near to the rollercoaster there is the track of rollercoaster cart under a bridge. There are some trees near the track.\" width=\"350\" \/><\/span>\n      \n    <\/div><p id=\"import-auto-id1165298810746\">The arc of a basketball, the orbit of a satellite, a bicycle rounding a curve, a swimmer diving into a pool, blood gushing out of a wound, and a puppy chasing its tail are but a few examples of motions along curved paths. In fact, most motions in nature follow curved paths rather than straight lines. Motion along a curved path on a flat surface or a plane (such as that of a ball on a pool table or a skater on an ice rink) is two-dimensional, and thus described by two-dimensional kinematics. Motion not confined to a plane, such as a car following a winding mountain road, is described by three-dimensional kinematics. Both two- and three-dimensional kinematics are simple extensions of the one-dimensional kinematics developed for straight-line motion in the previous chapter. This simple extension will allow us to apply physics to many more situations, and it will also yield unexpected insights about nature.<\/p>\n","rendered":"<div class=\"splash\" id=\"import-auto-id1165298827978\">\n<div class=\"bc-figcaption figcaption\">Everyday motion that we experience is, thankfully, rarely as tortuous as a rollercoaster ride like this\u2014the Dragon Khan in Spain\u2019s Universal Port Aventura Amusement Park. However, most motion is in curved, rather than straight-line, paths. Motion along a curved path is two- or three-dimensional motion, and can be described in a similar fashion to one-dimensional motion. (credit: Boris23\/Wikimedia Commons)<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"import-auto-id1165298786319\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/10\/Figure_03_00_01a.jpg\" alt=\"In this figure the Dragon Khan rollercoaster in Spain&#x2019;s Universal Port Aventura Amusement Park is shown. There are mostly curved paths in the rollercoaster. Near to the rollercoaster there is the track of rollercoaster cart under a bridge. There are some trees near the track.\" width=\"350\" \/><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p id=\"import-auto-id1165298810746\">The arc of a basketball, the orbit of a satellite, a bicycle rounding a curve, a swimmer diving into a pool, blood gushing out of a wound, and a puppy chasing its tail are but a few examples of motions along curved paths. In fact, most motions in nature follow curved paths rather than straight lines. Motion along a curved path on a flat surface or a plane (such as that of a ball on a pool table or a skater on an ice rink) is two-dimensional, and thus described by two-dimensional kinematics. Motion not confined to a plane, such as a car following a winding mountain road, is described by three-dimensional kinematics. Both two- and three-dimensional kinematics are simple extensions of the one-dimensional kinematics developed for straight-line motion in the previous chapter. This simple extension will allow us to apply physics to many more situations, and it will also yield unexpected insights about nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["openstaxcollege"],"pb_section_license":"cc-by"},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[53],"license":[59],"class_list":["post-236","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-openstaxcollege","license-cc-by"],"part":234,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/236\/revisions"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/234"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/236\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/test3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}