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Study and
practice
Read Ch 2,
pp. 31-36

Essential Knowledge
Producing a complete set of motion Graphs
pos
pos
A curved line on a position-time graph indicates
+a
acceleration because the slope (= velocity) is changing.
- a
Upward curves indicate positive acceleration, while
downward curves show negative acceleration.
t
When an object is slowing down, the velocity and acceleration of
v
forward
the object are in opposite directions (have different signs one
will be positive and one will be negative). Also, the velocity
t
0
time graph is always going towards the horizontal axis where the
backward
velocity = 0.
v
Any time the object is speeding up, the velocity and acceleration
forward
of the object are in the same direction (have the same sign --t
both positive or both negative). The velocity-time graph is
0
moving away from the horizontal axis.
backward
The area under an acceleration-time graph tells you the change in
velocity of an object. The area under a velocity-time graph tells you the displacement of an object