BRAINCAKEDisplacement -Time and Distance-Time Graphs
Displacement-time graph
Displacement is a vector quantity so can be negative or positive in one dimension.
Time is a scalar quantity and can only be positive. The axes of the graph reflect this. The gradient of a displacement-time graph is the velocity.
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