GRAPH INTERPRETATION POSITION vs TIME GRAPH Given below
GRAPH INTERPRETATION POSITION vs TIME GRAPH
Given below is a strobe picture of a ball rolling across a table. Strobe pictures reveal the position of the object at regular intervals of time, in this case, once each 0. 1 seconds. Notice that the ball covers an equal distance between flashes. Let's assume this distance equals 20 cm and display the ball's behavior on a graph plotting its x-position versus time.
The slope of this line would equal 20 cm divided by 0. 1 sec or 200 cm/sec. This represents the ball's average velocity as it moves across the table. Since the ball is moving in a positive direction its velocity is positive. That is, the ball's velocity is a vector quantity possessing both magnitude (200 cm/sec) and direction (positive).
Describe the position-time graph 6 7 8 9 10
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