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The three types of motion are uniform motion, variable motion, and periodic motion. Uniform motion is when the speed and direction stays the same. But in Periodic motion, the motion is repeated. But in contrast to all of them, Variable motion is when eventually the direction or the velocity (speed) change.

Alternatively, in physics there are only three types of motion when describing particles eg electrons, molecules, atoms etc:

  • transitional motion that takes an object from one location to another;
  • vibrational motion that takes the object backwards and forwards over the same relatively small distance;
  • rotational motion where an object is spinning.

Most movement consists of a mixture of all three but the particles in a solid would have mainly vibrational motion where as gas particles would have them all.

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