Class 9 Physics - Motion (Quick Notes)
1. What is Motion?
- When an object changes its position with time, it is in motion.
2. Types of Motion
- Uniform Motion: Equal distances in equal time intervals.
- Non-Uniform Motion: Unequal distances in equal time intervals.
3. Key Terms
- Distance: Total path covered (Scalar, no direction).
- Displacement: Shortest distance from start to end point (Vector, has direction).
- Speed: Distance travelled per unit time.
- Velocity: Displacement per unit time (Speed with direction).
- Acceleration: Change in velocity per unit time.
4. Important Formulas
Speed = Distance / Time
Velocity = Displacement / Time
Acceleration = (Final Velocity - Initial Velocity) / Time
v = u + at
s = ut + 1/2 at^2
v^2 - u^2 = 2as
5. Graphical Representation
- Distance-Time Graph:
- - Straight line: Uniform speed.
- - Curved line: Non-uniform speed.
- Velocity-Time Graph:
Class 9 Physics - Motion (Quick Notes)
- - Horizontal line: Uniform velocity.
- - Sloped line: Acceleration.
6. Types of Acceleration
- Positive Acceleration: Speed increases.
- Negative Acceleration: Speed decreases.
- Zero Acceleration: Constant speed.
7. Uniform Circular Motion
- Object moves in a circle at constant speed but velocity changes due to changing direction.
Speed = (2 x 3.14 x r) / T
Quick Revision Points
- Motion means change in position.
- Distance is scalar, displacement is vector.
- Uniform motion: constant speed.
- Non-uniform motion: changing speed.
- Speed = Distance ÷ Time.
- Velocity = Displacement ÷ Time.
- Acceleration = Change in velocity ÷ Time.
- Three equations of motion are must-remember.
- Graphs: straight = uniform, curved = non-uniform.
- Circular motion = constant speed, changing direction.