Physics GCSE
rectangles and triangles
What rectangles and triangles means in Physics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of rectangles and triangles
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Reference: AQA
The shapes into which the area under straight-line sections is split, a rectangle being velocity multiplied by time and a triangle half the base multiplied by the height.
Topics that use rectangles and triangles
- Acceleration (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Acceleration
- Acceleration and units
- area under a graph
- Area under a graph as a physical quantity
- Average acceleration
- Change in velocity
- Compound geometric shapes in physics
- Direction convention
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