What is Position in Physics? - Definition & Examples
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Which of these words accurately describes 'position'?
Vector.
What does a diagonal upwards-sloping line on a position-time graph mean?
The position is changing -- the object is moving away from the origin.
You run around, traveling a total of 45 meters, and end up 1 meter to the right of the origin. The x-axis points left to right. The y-axis points up and down. What is your position?
+1 meter (x direction)
What is position in physics?
A place where someone or something is located in terms of an axis.
What is a vector?
A quantity where direction matters.
