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Used to describe the velocity of a moving object during its motion. depict the direction and relative speed by a vector arrow.
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The distance between dots on a ticker tape represents the object's position change during that time interval. A large distance between dots indicates that the object was moving fast. A small distance between dots means the object was moving slow.
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Car is traveling at a constant speed Traveling at 10 m/s
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If the position-time data for such a car were graphed, then the resulting graph would look like the graph at the right. Note that a motion described as a constant, positive velocity results in a line of constant and positive slope when plotted as a position-time graph.
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A car moving with a constant velocity of +10 m/s for 5 seconds. That is, the slope of the line is +10 meter/1 second. In this case, the slope of the line (10 m/s) is obviously equal to the velocity of the car.
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The slope of the graph on the right is larger than that on the left. This larger slope is indicative of a larger velocity. The object represented by the graph on the right is traveling faster than the object represented by the graph on the left.
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The graph on the left is representative of an object that is moving with a negative velocity and is returning back to the reference point. The graphs have similar features – they are both constant, negative velocity However, the slope of the graph on the right is larger than that on the left. Once more, this larger slope is indicative of a larger velocity. The object represented by the graph on the right is traveling faster than the object the left.
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The motion described as a constant, positive velocity results in a line of zero slope A horizontal line has zero slope when plotted as a velocity-time graph.
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