AC HPAT Physics| 50 Actual Questions and Answers 100% Correct| Latest Update 2025/2026

DIstance ✔✔· Distance is a scalar quantity that refers to "how much ground an object has
covered" during its motion.
Displacement ✔✔· Displacement is a vector quantity that refers to "how far out of place an
object is"; it is the object's overall change in position.
Position ✔✔· Position is a place where someone or something is located or has been put. In
physics, position is usually a number on an axis. ... Position is a vector, because direction
matters. But distance is a scalar. Distance is how far you've traveled.
Speed ✔✔· Speed is the distance traveled per unit of time. It is how fast an object is moving.
Speed is the scalar quantity that is the magnitude of the velocity vector. It doesn't have a
direction.
Acceleration ✔✔· Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity with time.
Instantenous velocity ✔✔· Instantaneous velocity is the velocity of an object in motion at a
specific point in time. This is determined similarly to average velocity, but we narrow the period
of time so that it approaches zero. If an object has a standard velocity over a period of time, its
average and instantaneous velocities may be the same.
A force ✔✔a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object.
A force can cause an object with mass to change its velocity (which includes to begin moving
from a state of rest), i.e., to accelerate. Force can also be described intuitively as a push or a pull
Net force ✔✔· Net force is the vector sum of forces acting on a particle or body. The net force is
a single force that replaces the effect of the original forces on the particle's motion. It gives the
particle the same acceleration as all those actual forces together as described by the Newton's
second law of motion.