3.1 Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration in Two Dimensions | General Physics

In this lesson Chad covers displacement, velocity, and acceleration in two dimensions. The lesson serves as an introduction to motion in two dimensions (i.e. kinematics in 2d). He works out a problem involving 2d velocity and calculates the resulting 2d displacement. He then shows that the same 2d displacement could have been calculated by calculating first using the x-component of the velocity to calculate the x-component of the displacement and using the y-component of the velocity to calculate the y-component of the displacement, and then using the pythagorean theorem to calculate the 2d displacement. In so doing Chad demonstrates that the motion of an object in the x-direction and the motion in the y-dimension can be viewed and treated independently preparing students for projectile motion in the next lesson.

00:00 Lesson Introduction
00:40 Introduction to Motion in Two Dimensions
03:32 Introduction to Kinematics Calculations in Two Dimensions
07:32 Treating the x-Dimension and y-Dimension Independently

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