Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Write down the type of motion of a body in each of the following distance time-graph.
Advertisements
Solution
(i) The body is showing decreasing velocity that is retardation.
(ii) Initially, the body is showing retarded motion and then an accelerating one.
(iii) The body is in the state of rest.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
What can you say about the motion of an object whose distance-time graph is a straight line parallel to the time axis?
A driver of a car travelling at 52 km h−1 applies the brakes and accelerates uniformly in the opposite direction. The car stops in 5 s. Another driver going at 3 km h−1 in another car applies his brakes slowly and stops in 10 s. On the same graph paper, plot the speed versus time graphs for the two cars. Which of the two cars travelled farther after the brakes were applied?
Given figure shows the distance-time graph of three objects A, B and C. Study the graph and answer the following questions:
- Which of the three is travelling the fastest?
- Are all three ever at the same point on the road?
- How far has C travelled when B passes A?
- How far has B travelled by the time it passes C?
Show the shape of the distance-time graph for the motion in the following case:
A car moving with a constant speed.
Show the shape of the distance-time graph for the motion in the following case:
A car parked on a side road.
Figure shows the distance-time graph for the motion of two vehicles A and B. Which one of them is moving faster?
Figure: Distance-time graph for the motion of two cars
What can you say about the motion of a body whose distance-time graph is a straight line parallel to the time axis ?
A student draws a distance-time graph for a moving scooter and finds that a section of the graph is horizontal line parallel to the time axis. Which of the following conclusion is correct about this section of the graph?
The area under velocity time graph represents ______.
Assertion: The slope of the distance-time graph of a body moving with high speed is steeper than the slope of the distance-time graph of a body with low velocity.
Reason: Slope of distance-time graph = speed of the body.
