Write down the relationship between the position and the velocity of the cart.  Use that relationship to construct an position versus time graph just below each of your velocity versus time graphs from question 1, with the same scale for each time axis. Write down an equation for the new graph. Explain what the symbols in each of the equations mean.  What quantities in these equations can you determine from your graph?  Consider the questions printed in italics, below, to make a rough sketch of how you expect the velocity vs. time graph to look for a cart under the conditions given in the problem.  Explain your reasoning.   Since a simple push of the lego car doesn't send it cruising along forever, you know the lego cart's velocity changes as it moves along.  How does the velocity change (increase or decrease)?    *Can you solve the 2nd and 3rd part?*

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  1. How would you expect a velocity vs. time graph to look for a cart moving with a constant velocity? Make a rough sketch of the graph and explain your reasoning.  Write down an equation for the graph.  Explain what the symbols in each of the equations mean.  What quantities in these equations can you determine from your graph?
  2. Write down the relationship between the position and the velocity of the cart.  Use that relationship to construct an position versus time graph just below each of your velocity versus time graphs from question 1, with the same scale for each time axis. Write down an equation for the new graph. Explain what the symbols in each of the equations mean.  What quantities in these equations can you determine from your graph? 
  3. Consider the questions printed in italics, below, to make a rough sketch of how you expect the velocity vs. time graph to look for a cart under the conditions given in the problem.  Explain your reasoning.  

    Since a simple push of the lego car doesn't send it cruising along forever, you know the lego cart's velocity changes as it moves along.  How does the velocity change (increase or decrease)?   

*Can you solve the 2nd and 3rd part?*

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