Question

Look at the graph below measuring the speed of a truck and answers the following 2 question.

1) if the graph represents speed what is measured on the x and y axes ?
2) based on what the y acid measures explain the motion of the truck represented by the graph from point 2 to 6 .

Answer 1

X would be equal to time and y be equal to distance

The y axis would be measuring distance and the x axis would be measuring time. Another name for a speed graph is the distance time graph. The y axis would be measuring the distance covered by the truck in meters and the x axis would be for the time it takes to reach that distance in second.



B) 2-6 would represent contact motion, meaning the vehicle is at rest. The time would be increasing from 2-6 to however the distance remains the same which is 20m