First thing first: We're discussing Motion in Physics, and more precisely, the three (well, actually four, but we don't use the last one that often) equations of motion. These equations are your toolkit when dealing with questions about, well, motion!

Imagine you're in a car (🚗 vroom vroom) that's accelerating. You start with some initial speed u, then you put the pedal to the metal, and after some time t, you're at a new speed v. This is described as v = u + at. It's like saying "my new speed is my old speed plus all that acceleration over time".

• Real World Example: If you're in a car at a speed of 20 m/s, and you accelerate at 5 m/s² for 3 seconds, your final speed will be 20 m/s + (5 m/s² * 3s) = 35 m/s. So, you're going faster than before!

in that car. It's like calculating the area under the graph of speed vs time (remember, area under graph = sum of all tiny pieces of distance travelled at each moment). The equation s= ut + ½at² tells us just that. It says "the total distance covered is initial speed times time plus half the product of acceleration and square of time".

• Real World Example: Using the previous example, the distance you covered in that car will be 20 m/s * 3s + 0.5 * 5 m/s² * (3s)² = 60 m + 22.5 m = 82.5 m. That's quite a stretch!