Question

How do you graph motion in physics? How do you graph motion in physics? I've seen problems state that an object is in free fall or that it was thrown upward and hits the ground, but I don't know how to graph them. If acceleration is gravity, I know that -9.8 should be in the equation somewhere, but I don't know how to incorporate that number with an initial velocity and height.

Answer 1

This is Kinematics and the equations in your book.

A speed time graph would plot the speed of something against the teime it was at a speed.

If it were changing it speed constantly, that would be a straight line if acclerating. Total distrance would be the area under the graph.