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Unit 4: Contextual Applications of Differentiation

Straight-Line Motion: Position, Velocity, and Acceleration

Use derivatives of a position function to find velocity and acceleration, and decide which way a particle moves and whether it is speeding up or slowing down.

Topic 4.2 · 9 min read

This lesson comes with the AP Calculus AB plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Position, velocity, acceleration
  2. 02Direction: the sign of velocity
  3. 03Speeding up and slowing down
  4. 04Reading motion from a velocity graph
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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