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Q: What can you say about the motion of a body if its displacement time graph is a straight line?
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When can a body have same distance and same displacement?

Distance is equal to magnitude of displacement when the motion is in a straight line.


How can you obtain the average velocity and instantaneous velocity from a displacement - time graph?

You cannot because a displacement-time graph is concerned only with radial motion: displacement from a fixed point of reference. Any transverse motion is completely ignored. Thus, if you had a body going around in a circle about the point of reference, its speed would be recorded zero!


What would be the shape of a displacement versus time graph for an object?

the displacement mean the shortest distance between two points. the shape of displacement where the objects move and its also help us to tell the shape of displacement with the use of graph.


Can you tell from a displacement - time graph whether an object is stationary?

No you cannot.A displacement-time graph is concerned only with radial motion: displacement from a fixed point of reference. Any transverse motion is completely ignored. Thus, if you had a body going around in a circle about the point of reference, its speed would be recorded zero even though it is far from stationary.


What will you say about motion of body if distance time graph is straight line having constant angel with time axis?

If the distance/time graph is a straight line that makes a constant angel with the time axis, then the body's speed is constant, and is equal to the slope of the straight line (tangent of the constant angel).

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What can you say about the motion of a body if its displacement-time graph is a straight line inclined with the time axis?

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What can you say about nature of motion of a body if it's displacement time graph is a curve?

the body is in accelerated motion.


When can a body have same distance and same displacement?

Distance is equal to magnitude of displacement when the motion is in a straight line.


Is the displacement time graph of a body moving with uniform velocity always a straight line?

A displacement vs. time graph of a body moving with uniform (constant) velocity will always be a line of which the slope will be the value of velocity. This is true because velocity is the derivative (or slope at any time t) of the displacement graph, and if the slope is always constant, then the displacement will change at a constant rate.


What does horizontal line on a displacement-time graph represent?

That the body, whose motion is being plotted is not moving radially. It can be moving along a circle with the origin as the centre at any speed but that does not show up in a displacement-time graph.


How can you obtain the average velocity and instantaneous velocity from a displacement -time graph?

You cannot because a displacement-time graph is concerned only with radial motion: displacement from a fixed point of reference. Any transverse motion is completely ignored. Thus, if you had a body going around in a circle about the point of reference, its speed would be recorded zero!


How can you obtain the average velocity and instantaneous velocity from a displacement - time graph?

You cannot because a displacement-time graph is concerned only with radial motion: displacement from a fixed point of reference. Any transverse motion is completely ignored. Thus, if you had a body going around in a circle about the point of reference, its speed would be recorded zero!


What can you say about the motion of a body if it's velocity-time graph is a straight line inclined with the time-axis?

uniformly accelerated motion


What would be the shape of a displacement versus time graph for an object?

the displacement mean the shortest distance between two points. the shape of displacement where the objects move and its also help us to tell the shape of displacement with the use of graph.


Can you tell from a displacement - time graph whether an object is stationary?

No you cannot.A displacement-time graph is concerned only with radial motion: displacement from a fixed point of reference. Any transverse motion is completely ignored. Thus, if you had a body going around in a circle about the point of reference, its speed would be recorded zero even though it is far from stationary.


What is a speed time graph used to determine?

The motion of a body towards and from some fixed point. It can also be used to find the acceleration (or deceleration) in the same direction or the total distance from the fixed point in the direction of motion. But the graph gives no information at all on motion in any other direction. So, the horizontal displacement of a rocket going straight up would always be 0!


Can the displacement-time graph of a moving body be a straight line perpendicular to time axis?

No.The displacement-time graph of a moving body can not be a straight line perpendicular to the time axis. A graph like that would indicate that the body moved with infinite speed, moved from one place to another in zero time, or occupied many different places at the same time. Considerable evidence has piled up which suggests that none of those things can happen.