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3 years ago

The y-intercept of a position-time graph of an object gives the average velocity of the object.

Physics

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finlep [7]3 years ago

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The y-intercept of a position-time graph of an object gives the average velocity of the object is False.

Answer: False. 

Explanation:

The initial position of the object can be obtained by calculating the Y intercept of a position-time graph. In a position-time graph, the independent variable is time and dependent variable is position. Y axis is the position axis and x axis is the time axis.

The equation of the graph is given by $y =mx + c$ . m is the slope of the graph and c is the y intercept. When a particle starts from the origin its y intercept is zero.

The nature of the graph gives us an idea about velocity. When the velocity is positive, the position- time graph has positive slope and when the velocity is positive the graph has negative slope.

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