Linear motion
Linear motion, sometimes called uniform motion or rectilinear motion, is when an object moves along a straight path in just one direction.
Imagine a car driving straight on the road or a ball rolling smoothly on a flat surface. These are examples of linear motion. When an object moves in a constant direction with a constant speed, we say it has a constant velocity.
For example, a car moving on a straight road at a steady speed of 30 m/s. It keeps going straight without changing the speed or turning, so we call it a constant velocity.
Or let’s talk about acceleration.Sometimes, an object in linear motion increases its velocity at the same rate. We call this phenomenon constant acceleration.
If a car that starts from a stop and gradually gets faster by 5 m/s every second. After one second, its speed will be 5 metres per second. After two seconds, it will be 10 metres per second, and so on.
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