Science question, please help!?

Question

You can show the motion of an object on a line graph in which you plot distance against:

a) velocity

b) time

c) speed

d) direction

please help, & thank you.

Answer 1

The easiest way to do it is to plot distance against time.  Typically, one would put time on the horizontal axis and distance on the vertical axis, making distance a function of time.  The slope at any point on the graph is distance/time which is velocity.  Note that velocity has a direction as well as a magnitude, but speed only has a magnitude.  Thus, a negative slope of distance/time means that the motion is backwards.

Answer 2

distant against velocity - the line will either go up ( as velocity increases) or remain stable ( there is no change in velocity)

where distance - x axis, and velocity is y axis

Time vs distance- as time increases ur distance will icrease as well....unless u are at a stop, then ur time will increase but ur distance with be the same, causing a staight horizontal line.

time- x axis, distance- y axis

Speed vs. distance. - as distance increase, so will the speed. speed can go up and down ( y axis), but distance (x axis) cannot

distance - x, speed- y

direction vs. distance....with this one, you will need the whole graph, with 4 quadtants, since whatever u are graphing might change firection to the right left, up and down, ( y axis) while ur distance will remain the same

Answer 3

b) time

Answer 4

since your are plotting against distance it would speed.

Answer 5

speed