BRAINCAKEVelocity-Time Graphs
The gradient of a velocity-time graph is the acceleration.
The sum of the positive values of the areas enclosed by the graph and the axes is the distance travelled.
|area| = distance
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Key terms in this lesson
- displacement
- The distance an object has moved from a fixed reference point, in a specified direction.
More in Motion
- Speed and Velocity
- Average and Instantaneous Speed
- Acceleration
- Displacement -Time and Distance-Time Graphs
- Acceleration-Time Graphs
- Adding Forces
- The Parallelogram Rule
- Free-Body Force Diagrams
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