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Hello, I'm Sam Smith. This podcast is going to cover translational motion, and I broke this down into three main subject categories.

The first being vectors.

The second being acceleration, velocity, and position.

And I'll get into their relationship between those three variables.

And then also talk a little bit about their graphical representation and where you might

see that on the MCET.

And then lastly, I'll talk about free fall and projectile motion.

And transitional motion will show up on one out of the four MCAT sections.

That is going to be the physics chemistry section, obviously since this is a physics topic.

And in terms of the physics material, this stuff is pretty high yield.

You know, I've seen a lot of velocity, acceleration stuff, free fall as well. So this is all good stuff. And so with that said,

let's get into it. All right, so the first thing I want to do here is talk about what exactly

translational motion is about what exactly translational

motion is.

And so translational motion is the motion of the center of mass of an object from one

position to another relative to some fixed point.

And so you can kind of think of this as like a car moving from point A to point B over a distance of a mile.

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