Motion Graph Simulation J
Description:
A simulation of the collision of a car (red) with a truck (blue) is shown on the at the bottom. The car and truck stick to gether and come to rest at the location x = 0 at the end of the simulation (there is friction after the collision). You can see six choices of graphs by selecting from the table; time is the horizontal variable on all the graphs.
Questions 10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e, 10f:
Look at each graph and decide what is being plotted on the vertical axis (so you have six answers to this question). Choices of what might be plotted are the: car position, truck position, car velocity, truck velocity, car acceleration, truck acceleration. Explain how you arrived at your answers?