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If you are analyzing speed with respect to time, then you are decelerating.

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What will the acceleration-time graph show if the speed is decelerating?

On a graph of acceleration vs. time, during deceleration the line is below zero. On a graph of speed vs. time, during deceleration the line has a negative slope (sloping downward from left to right).


The graph of a car's speedometer was straight line sloping downward. the car was?

Slowing down or decelerating


What is a line sloping upwards on a speed time graph tell us?

The object is accelerating


Plot the graph to show ball thrown vertically upward and comes downward ignoring air resistence?

If you want the graph to show the acceleration of the ball against time, then the graph is a horizontal line. If you want the graph to show the velocity of the ball against time, then the graph is a straight line sloping downward. If you want the graph to show the height of the ball against time, then the graph is a parabola that opens downward.


What is a sloping straight line on a distance time graph?

An upward sloping straight line indicates that the object being studied is moving away from the origin and that the component of its velocity in the radial direction is a constant. A downward sloping line indicates it is moving towards the origin. However, neither line says anything about the transverse component of its motion.


Infer the motion of a car whose speed-time graph shows a horizontal line followed by a straight line that slopes downward to the bottom of the graph?

The horizontal line represents that the acceleration is zero or constant speed and the line that slopes downward means that the object is slowing down and it is a negative acceleration.


What does a downward sloping diagonal line mean in a velocity vs time graph?

This means your velocity is decreasing with time, or in other words, the object is slowing down.


What does a line that is sloping upwards on a speed time graph shows us?

That the object being studied is accelerating in the radial direction.


What does a curved line pointing downward on a position versus time graph indicate?

That means the speed (the slope of the position-time graph) is decreasing.


What does an downward sloping diagonal line mean in position vs time graph?

It means that either the distance is measured from the finish-line, or else the object is moving backwards, because the distance is shrinking as time goes on.


Why a budget line sloping downward?

Because the expenses are greater than the income.


How does the graph of displacement vs. time look for something moving at a constant positive velocity?

An Upward Sloping Straight Line. <3