Does anyone know what a position vs. time graph is?

Question

I just need like the definition of one and when you would use this.

Answer 1

A position vs. time graph is where position is the Y-axis (vertical) and time is the X-axis (horizontal).

Basically, you are measuring how much an object has moved in relationship to how long it took the object to get there.

Then with the data collected, we use it to calculate speed or velocity ie. how fast the object was moving in one direction.

Speed (distance divided by time) can be figured out by finding the slope of the graph line.

Answer 2

Position goes on the y axis and time goes on the x axis.  The slope at any position is the instantaneous velocity.

Answer 3

the slope of the graph is velocity.

the integral of it (or the area underneath is displacement.

the absolute value of the integral is the total distance traveled.

you use it to find velocity and distance.