(a) Calculate the slope of the line. What does this represent? (b) Was the speed of the object contant? How can you tell from the graph? (c) How far has the object travelled after 37.0 s? (d) How long does it take the object to go 56.0 m?
3. A car was travelling along the highway, and its motion was recorded as follows: Time (h) Distance (km) 1.0 170 2.0 312 3.0 423 4.0 541
(a) Plot a distance-time graph for this data.
(b) Calculate the slope of the line without using any plotted points. (c) What variable does the slope represent?
4. The speed-time graph below represents the motion of an elephant.
Speed vs. time for elephant
5.0 4.0 speed (m/s)
3.0 2.0 1.0 0.0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 time (s)
(a) Calculate the slope of the line.
(b) What does the slope represent? (c) Calculate the area under the line from 0 s to 50 s. (d) What does the area represent? 00001
1. 4.00 m/s; 60.0 km/h
2. Graph: Distance vs. time for object
60.0 distance (m)
40.0
20.0
0.0 0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 time (s)
(a) 1.18 m/s, represents speed
(b) Speed is constant because slope is constant (c) 43.7 m (d) 47.4 s
3. Graph: Distance vs. time for car
500
400 distance (km)
300
200
100
0 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 time (h)
slope is 122 km/h; represents average speed
4. 0.043 m/s2 ; acceleration; 1.3 × 102 m; distance travelled in the first 50
