Evangelion69 Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Hello, I'm charlie and I need help with a physics graph. The graph's axes are average time and average acceleration. there are oly two points on the graph. After the average time .7 seconds the average acceleration is 6.13 m/s squared. Then after 1.36 seconds, the average accel. is negative 5.79m/s squared. The thing I need help with is that I don't know how many quadrants this graph will take or if it goes into the negatives. Lastly, It would be informative if someone could tell me what a change in average accel. is called Thanks in advance:D please:confused:
swansont Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Time is always positive, so the two quadrants for t <0 won't be used, but your acceleration is both positive and negative so you will use both of those. The rate at which acceleration changes is called the jerk (or sometimes jolt) http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/jerk.html
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