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You can determine one variable from the other at any given point for that motion, and differentiating the graph gives you the speed at any selected point.

You can do this without the plot itself but a graph shows the relationship clearly and immediately.

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Distance time graph?

distance time graph is a graph traveled in a graph which shows how much we have traveled in equal period of time.


What is a graph with distance on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis is called?

distance-time graph


What does the slope of the distance time graph represent?

The slope of a distance-time graph represents speed.


What is plotted on a vertical line distance-time graph?

Typically distance is plotted on the y-axis of a distance-time graph.


How can you calculate the speed in a distance time graph?

speed is the gradient under the distance vs time graph which is change in distance /change in time


Is acceleration the slope of a line on a distance time graph?

No. The slope of the distance-time graph is the change in distance per unit of time - otherwise known as speed. Acceleration is the slope of the speed time graph.


What are the uses of V-T graph?

The uses of the V-T graph include finding acceleration and describing motion. If you know what you're doing, you can also use a V-T graph to find the distance covered during some period of time.


How is a distance- time graph different than a speed time graph?

The variable plotted along the vertical axis is the distance in the first case, speed in the second. The gradient of (the tangent to) the distance-time graph is the speed while the area under the curve of the speed-time graph is the distance.


Why is the distance time graph a straight line for?

A straight line on a distance - time graph represents a "constant velocity".


What does a speed time graph indicate about an object's motion?

A distance time graph would show the distance traveled.


What does the slope of a time vs distance graph equal?

Slope of time Vs distance graph gives the inverse of velocity.


Why area below the distance-time graph is used to calculate speed?

That's not correct. If you have a graph of distance as a function of time, the speed is the slope of the graph.