We are given a table of velocity vs time. We are asked the following:
Part a. We are asked to determine the average acceleration. To do that we will use the following formula:
Where:
Now, we use the final and initial values of velocity and time from the table.:
Solving the operations:
Therefore, the acceleration is 0.0016 mm/ms^2.
To convert to m/s^2 we will use the following conversion factors:
Now, we multiply by the conversion factors:
Solving the operations;
Part B. We are asked to determine the displacement. The displacement in a graph of velocity vs time is equivalent to the area under the curve of the graph, like this:
The area under the curve is approximately the area of a triangle, therefore, its area is given by:
Where the base is the difference in time and the height is the difference is velocity, therefore, we have:
Substituting the values we get
Solving the operations:
Now, we convert mm to cm using the following conversion factor:
Multiplying by the conversion factor we get:
Therefore, the displacement is 28.2 cm.
Part C. This is a uniformly accelerated motion or a motion with a constant acceleration. We can tell from the graph because in this type of motion the graph of velocity vs time is a straight line. The slope of the line is the acceleration of the motion due to the fact that the acceleration does not change with time.