Rectilinear motion
Motion and Time of Class 7
When a body moves along a straight line, the motion described by the body is rectilinear motion
Examples of Rectilinear motion
- A train moving on a straight railway track.
- A car moving on a straight road.
- A freely falling stone.
- A coin moving over a carom board.
Curvilinear motion
When a body moves along a curved line, the motion described by the body is called curvilinear motion
Examples of Curvilinear motion
- A ball thrown upwards at an angle
- A car or train moving along a curved road or track
Rectilinear motion
When a body moves along a straight line, the motion described by the body is rectilinear motion.
Examples of Rectilinear motion
- A train moving on a straight railway track.
- A car moving on a straight road.
- A freely falling stone.
- A coin moving over a carom board.
- Introduction
- Measuring time by the Sun the Moon and the Stars
- Oil Lamps
- Candle Clocks
- Water Clocks
- Hour Glasses or Sandglasses
- The Merkhet
- Why 24 hours in a day
- Quartz Clocks
- Cesium Atomic Clock
- Modern Time Keeping
- Motion
- Translation motion
- Rotational motion
- Rectilinear motion
- Curvilinear motion
- Oscillatory/Vibratory motion
- Vibratory motion
- Random motion
- Accelerating Motion & Falling
- Distance & Displacement
- Acceleration
- solved questions
- Exercise-1
