Scholarly research is the process of conducting research in a professional manner. It is performed to examine a "gap" in a field of research.

Determining a gap requires foundational knowledge on the subject, including a close reading of many peer-reviewed journals, which are research articles approved by scholars in the field of study.

To gain a background in kinematics, the study of motion, I used the EBSCO research database to search for peer-reviewed journals, adding keywords to specify the search process, as shown below.