Motion: JAMB Physics Past Questions and Answers

What the JAMB syllabus covers in Motion

Our summary: Types of motion, forces as the cause of motion, and straight-line motion with its equations and graphs.

• Types of motion (Translational, oscillatory, rotational, spin and random.)
• Relative motion
• Causes of motion
• Types of force ((i) contact; (ii) force field.)
• Linear motion ((i) speed, velocity and acceleration; (ii) equations of uniformly accelerated motion; (iii) motion under gravity; (iv) distance-time graph and velocity-time graph; (v) instantaneous velocity and acceleration.)

Objectives

• identify different types of motion;
• solve numerical problem on collinear motion;
• identify force as cause of motion;
• identify push and pull as forms of force;
• identify electric and magnetic attractions, gravitational pull as forms of field forces;
• differentiate between speed, velocity and acceleration;
• deduce equations of uniformly accelerated motion;
• solve problems of motion under gravity;
• interpret distance-time graph and velocity-time graph;
• compute instantaneous velocity and acceleration;

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