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Physics Tutorial 3.11 - Acceleration v's Time Graph

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There are 5 lessons in this physics tutorial covering Acceleration v's Time Graph. The tutorial starts with an introduction to Acceleration v's Time Graph and is then followed with a list of the separate lessons, the tutorial is designed to be read in order but you can skip to a specific lesson or return to recover a specific physics lesson as required to build your physics knowledge of Acceleration v's Time Graph. you can access all the lessons from this tutorial below.

In this Physics tutorial, you will learn:

  • The meaning of the acceleration vs time graph
  • How to plot the acceleration vs time graph in uniform motion
  • How to plot the acceleration vs time graph for uniformly accelerated (decelerated) motion
  • How to make use of the average acceleration concept in situations involving motions with variable acceleration
  • The relationship between motion graphs and kinematic quantities

Introduction

In this tutorial we cover the third type of motion graph: the Acceleration vs Time graph. This kind of graph is particularly important in non-uniform motion. It helps us calculate the other kinematic quantities even when no other option is available, i.e. when the motion equations cannot be used.

We will discuss in detail the above situations illustrating them with both numerical and non-numerical examples.

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Kinematics Learning Material
Tutorial IDPhysics Tutorial TitleTutorialVideo
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Questions
3.11Acceleration v's Time Graph
Lesson IDPhysics Lesson TitleLessonVideo
Lesson
3.11.1Acceleration verse Time graph in Uniform motion
3.11.2Acceleration verse Time graph in the uniformly accelerated (decelerated) motion
3.11.3Why we cannot use the concept of Scalar Acceleration
3.11.4Vector acceleration verse time graph and the hypothetical corresponding scalar acceleration vs time graph for the same motion
3.11.5What happens if the acceleration is not constant?

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  5. Continuing learning kinematics - read our next physics tutorial: Motion in Two Dimensions. Projectile Motion

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