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In this example, we're given the velocity versus time graph for an object moving in one dimension, and we're going to be answering several questions about this object's motion using the graph.
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Right, so let's pull up the graph.
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So you can see we have velocity on the x, or sorry, the y axis and time on the x axis.
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This here is negative 8.
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All right, and up here is 12.
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And then we have the origin here.
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And at time t equals zero, the object is at position x equals zero.
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The first thing we want to find is this object acceleration in three segments, segment one, so between zero and three seconds.
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Segment two is going to be between three and eight seconds.
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And then segment three is going to be between 14 and 18 seconds.
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All right, so i'll say a1, that's the slope of the velocity versus time graph.
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We see that that's zero, so we're not accelerating.
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We're moving at a constant velocity in segment one.
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Segment two, we can see that we're accelerating.
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Now we have some slope.
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It's a positive slope.
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And we can see that we're going from negative 8 to positive 12 meters per second in a time of three to eight seconds, five seconds.
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So our acceleration two is going to be equal to four meters per second squared.
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Okay.
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And again, from eight to 14 seconds, again, i'll just call this segment four, a sub four equals zero.
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Again, we have that constant velocity.
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Right now, let's look at our last segment.
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We're decelerating now.
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We're going from positive 12 meters per second to zero in a time of 14 to 8, 4 seconds.
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So my acceleration in that segment a3 is going to equal negative 3 meters per second squared.
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Okay, the next thing we want to look at is when is this object moving with the lowest speed? okay, that's going to be when we cross the origin, okay, when we're at velocity equals zero.
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So that's going to be at this point and this point.
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So we see we have five, and 18 seconds.
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Okay, so i'll call those t -min equals 5, 18 seconds...