Kinematics
The description of motion — position, velocity, acceleration — without asking what causes it. Start here before Newton’s laws.
No calculus required.
Kinematics — Our Notes
ChapterPhasor
A structured walkthrough of position, velocity, acceleration, free fall, and projectiles.
Physics, Volume 1
TextbookHalliday, Resnick & Krane · Ch. 2 "Motion in One Dimension" & Ch. 4 "Motion in Two and Three Dimensions"
Builds kinematics from the ground up: displacement, velocity, acceleration in 3-space.
MIT 8.01x — 1D Kinematics: Speed, Velocity & Acceleration
VideoWalter Lewin — Lecture 1 · 50:42
Builds the vocabulary — displacement vs distance, average vs instantaneous — with classic demonstrations.
MIT 8.01x — Vectors, Dot Products & Cross Products
VideoWalter Lewin — Lecture 2 · 51:04
The vector toolkit needed for 2D and 3D kinematics.
MIT 8.01x — 3D Kinematics & Free-Falling Reference Frames
VideoWalter Lewin — Lecture 3 · 51:20
Motion in three dimensions, and the elegant trick of working in a freely falling frame.
Moving Man
SimulationPhET Interactive Simulations
Drag the figure and watch position, velocity, and acceleration graphs respond live.