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Yes. Free fall can be graphed on a position-time graph and a velocity-time graph.
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The constant velocity of a falling object?
A falling object doesn't have constant velocity.It has constant acceleration. That means that its velocity increases at a steady (constant) rate.The rate is called the "acceleration of gravity".
What is the rate of acceleration of an object on the moon?
-- The rate of acceleration of an object on the moon is(the net force on the object)/(the object's mass) .-- If the object is falling, with nothing but the force of gravity acting on it, thenits acceleration is 1.623 m/s2 (compared to 9.807 on Earth).
What is the acceleration of a falling object that had reached its terminal velocity?
An object that has reached its terminal velocity is going at a constant velocity. Acceleration is the rate of change of the velocity. The rate of change is zero. Therefore, the acceleration is zero.
Why is the slope of velocity graph the acceleration of gravity?
The slope of a straight line tells the rate at which your variables are changing. In this case, it tells you how your velocity is changing over time, which in physics is how we define acceleration. If you graph the velocity of an object vs time when it is falling through the air, it gives to the acceleration due to gravity because that is the acceleration all objects fall at.
How does the force of the gravity affect the rate of the acceleration?
Acceleration of a falling object is directly proportional tothe force of gravity in the object's location.
When the slope of v t graph is negative and constant what is the nature of acceleration?
acceleration is the slope of the v t graph... so the acceleration is constant and negative. In other words, the object is slowing down at a constant rate.
What is the rate of acceleration due to the force of gravity?
A falling object speeds up at a rate of 9.8 meters per second each second.
What does the slope of an acceleration time graph indicate?
The rate at which acceleration is changing.
What is the gradient of acceleration time graph?
There is not a word for it but it it the rate of change of acceleration.
What is the slope of a acceleration- time graph?
Rate of change in the acceleration.
You can use a distance versus time graph to analyze the motion of an accelerating object?
The slope at any point is the velocity, so you can construct a graph of that. The slope at any point on that graph is the acceleration. So you can construct a graph of that. The slope at any point on that is the rate of change of acceleration. And so on.
How is an object moving if a slanted straight line on a speed-versus-time graph represent its motion?
The slope (gradient) of a speed v time graph is acceleration. If the graph is a straight line, then the acceleration is constant. if the slope is 0 (ie the line is horizontal) then the acceleration is 0, and the object is moving with a constant speed (which can be 0, ie the object is stationary). If the graph is "slanted" then depending upon which way the line is "slanted" the object is accelerating or decelerating (the steepness of the slope gives the rate of this). So the object is moving with constant acceleration and either speeding up or slowing down - which, and by how much, depends upon the gradient of the graph.
The acceleration of an object is related to?
The acceleration of an object is related to velocity since acceleration is the rate of change of velocity.
What is the rate of acceleration?
the rate of acceleration is very broad as to what you mean, if you mean acceleration as a rate, see my paragraph 2, if you see acceleration change at a rate, see paragraph 3. The rate of acceleration is constant on usually all intervals. Acceleration is defined by the change in speed (velocity) (also note speed is change in distance over time). Acceleration is best described by a car or falling object. If you took a falling object and graphed its distance vs time, you would get a parabola. if you took the derivative of the equation of that graph, you would get the velocity vs time graph. If you then took a third derivative then you would get to the acceleration vs time graph. the acceleration due to earths gravity is 9.8 meters per second squared, or 32 feet per second squared. In that number the average rate of change is that for every second, the velocity increases by 9.8 meters per second. If you mean that acceleration is changing at a rate, then you actual took a third derivative. but for the acceleration to change, you must have an increasing force or decreasing weight (because newtons second law of motion states that Force equals the mass of an object times its acceleration). if you took this approach and graphed it on the distance vs time, you would get a third degree equation (x to the third power), velocity vs time would be parabolic, acceleration vs time would be linear, and the change of acceleration over time to be a constant function.
What does the slope of a velocity vs time graph show you?
The rate of acceleration is a measure of the change of the velocity of an object with time. On a graph of velocity versus time, it is represented by the slope of the line so graphed. If velocity is changing in time, the object described is being accelerated. The greater the slope of the graph, the greater the change of velocity per unit of time and the greater the acceleration of that object. true
What does the slope of an acceleration-time graph indicate?
The rate of change of acceleration (ie. the slope of an acceleration-time graph) is the 'jerk'. It is the third derivative of displacement.
Is a negative slop on velocity vs time graph that the object is not moving?
If the speed/time graph slops negatively, that's an indication that the speed is decreasing, i.e. the object is slowing down. The negative slop is also called negative acceleration, since acceleration is the rate of change of velocity.
What is a distance vs time squared graph?
A distance vs time squared graph shows shows the relationship between distance and time during an acceleration. An example of an acceleration value would be 3.4 m/s^2. The time is always squared in acceleration therefore the graph can show the rate of which an object is moving
How would a graph of negative and positive acceleration differ?
This depends on what the graph represents. If it is a graph of velocity on the vertical and time on the horizontal, then if acceleration is at a constant rate, the graph will be a straight line with positive slope (pointing 'up'). If acceleration stops, then the graph will be a horizontal line (zero acceleration or deceleration). If it is deceleration (negative acceleration), then the graph will have negative slope (pointing down).
What information can you get from looking at the slope of a motion graph?
The rate of acceleration.
What is the rate of acceleration of an object falling to Earth?
In the absence of air resistance, a body falling to Earth would accelerate at a rate of approximately 9.8m/s2; gaining 9.8 metres per second velocity every second.
If an object falls with constant acceleration the velocity of the object must?
Changing at a constant rate equal to acceleration.
How do you define of acceleration?
It actually means this. Increase in the rate or speed
Is the rate at which an object changes velocity?
No, velocity is the instantaneous speed of an object, the rate of change would be the acceleration of the object.
What happens to the rate at which falling objects accelerate over time?
The rate of acceleration is constant.
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