Distance - Time Graphs

Real Life Graph
Examples

What is Velocity?

Worked Examples of Speed

Uniform Velocity means the object on the graph is moving equal distances in equal time.
This is why the sloped line (gradient) is a straight line.

The sloped line ( / ) on the graph is called the gradient, it represents the velocity.

To work out the gradient (velocity)
We take the vertical reading from the graph where the line finishes
and divide it by the horizontal reading where the line finishes.

gradient = vertical / horizontal = 50 / 5 = 10m/s

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