Displacement - time graph
Chinese equivalent: 位移 - 时间图像
Displacement - time graph A graph with time on the horizontal axis and displacement on the vertical axis; its slope represents instantaneous velocity.
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Displacement - time graph A graph with time on the horizontal axis and displacement on the vertical axis; its slope represents instantaneous velocity.
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