Tutorials in Introductory Physics
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Author: Peter S. Shaffer, Lillian C. McDermott
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Chapter 15.1, Problem 2dTH
All three graphs are representations of the same motion.
- How can you account for the last graph being so much straighter than the first?
- Can you tell from a very small time interval on a graph whether the motion over the whole graph has constant velocity?
- Find the average velocity over the small time interval from
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