Motion Graph Puzzles: Slope, Area & Types of Motion
1. What does the slope of a displacement-time (s-t) graph represent?
Hint: The slope shows how fast displacement is changing.Velocity.
2. What does the slope of a velocity-time (v-t) graph represent?
Hint: Velocity changes due to acceleration.Acceleration.
3. What does the slope of an acceleration-time (a-t) graph represent?
Hint: Acceleration changes with respect to time.Rate of change of acceleration (jerk).
4. What does the area under a velocity-time graph represent?
Hint: Velocity multiplied by time gives a measure of motion.Displacement.
5. What does the area under an acceleration-time graph represent?
Hint: Acceleration affects velocity over time.Change in velocity.
6. How does the displacement-time graph look for uniform motion?
Hint: The object moves at a constant velocity.A straight line with a constant slope.
7. How does the velocity-time graph look for uniform motion?
Hint: No change in velocity over time.A horizontal straight line.
8. How does the displacement-time graph look for non-uniform motion?
Hint: The object is accelerating or decelerating.A curved graph.
9. How does the velocity-time graph look for uniformly accelerated motion?
Hint: Velocity is increasing or decreasing at a constant rate.A straight line with a positive or negative slope.
10. How does the acceleration-time graph look for uniform acceleration?
Hint: The acceleration remains the same over time.A horizontal straight line above the time-axis.
