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Question
What can you say about the motion of a body if:
its velocity-time graph is a straight line ?
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Solution
The body has a uniform acceleration if its velocity-time graph is a straight line. If the straight line is parallel to the time axis then the magnitude of uniform acceleration is zero.
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