Question

How to calculate the slope of position time graph ?

Answer 1

Slope=
`(x2-x1)/(t2-t1)`

Step-by-step explanation:

We are supposed to find the slope in a position time graph,

For that we need atleast two points
`(t1,x1),(t2,x2)`.(
`(x,y )` represents there coordinates in respective axis directions.)

In the given case the y axis would be the position and the x axis as time .

Slope is defined as the ratio of change in y coordinate to change in x coordinate :-
`(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)`

So subsituting the coordinates of position and time we get slope as:-

`(x2-x1)/(t2-t1)`

[When we have more than two points which are not collinear then to calculate the slope we take the average.]