Graphing Your Motion

Today my group Kimmy, Rose and I did "Graphing Your Motion" in science class. We graphed our motion using a motion detector. This lab taught us about position, velocity and acceleration. I learned that velocity is the speed at which someting moves and acceleration is the rate at which something increases in velocity. I learned that you can have zero acceleration and have a positive velocity by mainting the same speed. I thought that it was hard to match the horizontal line. It was hard to keep the same speed. When I tried to match the line the graph was not straight. From this lab I also learned that by moving away from the motion detector the distance becomes negative and by moving towards the motion deector the distance becomes positive.