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Is position on an x or y axis

User Maurizio Reginelli
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Usually, time is the independent variable, so it goes in the x-axis.

Position is similar to distance, and spedd is the rate of variation of position or distance. All of these three are usually graphed in the y-axis, as they depend on time.

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