If you plot the distance d as an ordinate (y-axis) versus the time of fall t as an abscissa (x-axis), do you expect to get a str

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Ivanshal [37]

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If you plot the distance d as an ordinate (y-axis) versus the time of fall t as an abscissa (x-axis), do you expect to get a str

aight line? What type of curve do you expect to get?

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const2013 [10] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-12T03:11:35+03:00

Since a straight line on a distance time graph implies uniform speed, and falling is an acceleration - a non uniform speed - I woul not expect a straight line.I would expect to get a parabola.This is based on the kinematic equation s=ut+(1/2)at^2. If something is dropped from rest, u = 0; so s = (1/2)at^2Which is, I think, the equation of a parabola.