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Title Moving Man: Pos and Vel Graphs
Description This activity is used to introduce the idea of velocity graphs to students already familiar with position graphs. It has students collect numerical position and velocity data to graph by hand, and has them calculate slopes of the graphs.
Subject Physics
Level High School
Type Lab
Duration 60 minutes
Answers Included No
Language English
Keywords acceleration, data, graphs, position, velocity
Simulation(s) Mondar Mandir

Author(s) Tom Reeve
School / Organization Lincoln High School
Date submitted 13/02/27
Date updated 13/02/27