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No. The slope on a speed vs time graph tells the acceleration.
The slope of the speed-vs-time graph is the magnitude of acceleration.
A straight line with a positive slope on a position-time graph is the graph of an object that's moving in a straight line with constant speed.
The slope of a distance-time graph represents speed.
You can't determine velocity from that graph, because the graph tells you nothing about the direction of the motion. But you can determine the speed. The speed at any moment is the slope of a line that's tangent to the graph at that moment.
No. Slope of position/time graph is speed, or magnitude of velocity.Slope of speed/time graph is magnitude of acceleration.
No, but the slope of the graph does.
The slope of a position/time graph is the speed (magnitude of velocity).If the graph's slope is changing, that means the speed is changing, andthat would be accelerated motion.
That slope is the 'speed' of the motion. If the slope is changing, then the speed is changing. That's 'accelerated' motion. (It doesn't matter whether the speed is growing or shrinking. It's still 'accelerated' motion. 'Acceleration' does NOT mean 'speeding up'.)
-- If the position/time graph is a straight line, then the speed is constant, and the slope of the line is the average speed, as well as the instantaneous speed at any moment. -- If the position/time graph is not a straight line, then the average speed between two moments in time is the slope of a straight line drawn between those two points on the graph.
speed (magnitude of velocity)
The slope of the speed/time graph is the magnitude (size) of the object's acceleration.
magnitude of acceleration at every point on the graph
The slope of the curve.
A position time graph can show you velocity. As time changes, so does position, and the velocity of the object can be determined. For a speed time graph, you can derive acceleration. As time changes, so does velocity, and the acceleration of the object can be determined.If you are plotting velocity (speed) versus time, the slope is the acceleration.
The slope of the tangent line in a position vs. time graph is the velocity of an object. Velocity is the rate of change of position, and on a graph, slope is the rate of change of the function. We can use the slope to determine the velocity at any point on the graph. This works best with calculus. Take the derivative of the position function with respect to time. You can then plug in any value for x, and get the velocity of the object.
That means the speed (the slope of the position-time graph) is decreasing.