What are Velocity-Time Graph and Displacement-Time Graph?
A graph is defined as a pictorial representation of information which is a two-dimensional drawing explaining the relationship between dependent and independent variables.
Velocity-Time graph:
In the velocity-time graph, velocity is the dependent variable and is represented on the y-axis and time is the independent variable, represented on the x-axis. The slope of the graph will be:
Here,
“t” is the time.
“v” is the velocity.
The slope of the velocity-time graph is the definition of acceleration, therefore it can be said that the slope is equal to the acceleration.
Displacement-time graph
Displacement of an object is defined as how far the object is from its initial point. In the displacement time graph, displacement is the dependent variable and is represented on the y-axis while time is the independent variable and is represented on the x-axis and is also known as a position-time graph.
There are three different plots from the displacement time graph and they are given below:
The slope for the displacement time graph will be:
Here,
“d” is the displacement.
“t” is the time.
The takeaway from the displacement time graph is as follows: