A ball rolling down an incline, a person falling from a plane, a toy baby bottle released from the

bottom of a bathtub and a bicycle on which you have applied the brakes are some of the cases in
uniformly accelerated motion. All objects on the earth’s surface are being accelerated toward the center of
the earth at a rate of 9.81m/s2. 1 This implies that if you lift an object above the surface of the earth and
then drop it, the object will start from rest and its velocity will increase by 9.81 meters per second for
each second it is falling toward the earth’s surface until it hits the surface.

Uniformly Accelerated Motion (UAM) is motion of an object where the acceleration is constant.
In other words, the acceleration remains uniform; the acceleration is equal to a number and that number
does not change as a function of time. Acceleration is the rate at which velocity changes with time, in
terms of both speed and direction. A point or an object moving in a straight line is accelerated if it speeds
up or slows down. Motion on a circle is accelerated even if the speed is constant, because the direction is
continually changing. In the simplest case, a force applied to an object at rest causes it to accelerate in the
direction of the force. For a massive body moving in an inertial reference frame without any other forces
such as friction acting on it, a certain impulse will cause a certain change in its velocity.

When we are talking about motion in a straight line with constant acceleration, there are
equations of motion, which are helpful in determining one of the unknown parameters:

A=(Vf-Vi)/t

vf = vi + aΔt

Δx = vi Δt + 1/ 2 aΔt 2

vf 2 = vi 2 + 2aΔx

Δx = 1/ 2 vi + v ( f )Δt

Wherein;

vi = velocity initial

vf = velocity final

a = acceleration

Δx = displacement

Δt = changeintime

When using the uniformly accelerated motion, use base SI dimensions; meters and seconds. Remember,
the sign convention is to be maintained while applying these equations. One direction is considered to be
positive and another one as negative. One of the common examples of uniformly accelerated motion is
freely falling bodies. The only acceleration which is acting on the body is g (acceleration due to gravity).
If we are taking the vertically upward direction as the positive, the acceleration due to gravity (g) will be
negative since it is in the downward direction.
The distance-time graph for a uniformly accelerated motion looks as shown in the graph above, consider
how the distance is changing exponentially indicating that the velocity is changing at a constant rate or
there is constant acceleration.

Kinematic Equations of Motion

If an object starts with velocity ”u” and after some time “t” its velocity changes to v, if the uniform
acceleration is a and distance traveled in time (t) is s, then we obtain the following kinematic equations of
uniformly accelerated motion.

First Equation Of Motion

Let an object is moving with uniform acceleration

u = initial velocity of the object
v = final velocity of object
a = uniform acceleration
Let object reach point B after time (t) Now, from the graph

Slope= Acceleration(a)= changeinvelocitytime

Change in velocity = AB= v⃗ −u⃗
Time = AD = t

a = v⃗ −u⃗ t
Solving this we get the first equation of motion:

v⃗ =u⃗ +a⃗ t
Learn more about Relative Velocity Motion in Two Dimensions here.

Second Equation Of Motion

Consider an object starting with an initial velocity u and moving with uniform acceleration a. Distance
covered by the object at the given time t is given by the area of the trapezium ABDOE. Let in the given time
‘t’, the displacement covered by the moving object ‘s’ is given by the area of trapezium, ABDOE

Displacement (s) = Area of ABD + Area of ADOE

12 × AB× AD+ AE ×OE, AB= dc= at

= 12 at× t+ ut
Hence, the second equation of motion is:

s⃗ =u⃗ t+12a⃗ t²

Velocity time graph of a uniformly accelerated motion

The velocity-time graph of a uniformly accelerated motion is a straight line graph inclining towards the time
axis. If the object has positive constant acceleration, the graph slopes upward. In case the object has negative
constant acceleration, the velocity-time graph will slope downward.

Acceleration V.S. Time

In this website only uniform acceleration is discussed. Uniform acceleration can be seen
on the left, it occurs when the object accelerates at a constant rate. On the acceleration vs
time graph of a uniformly accelerating object the acceleration will appear as a horizontal
line.
On the right, however, is the acceleration vs time graph of an object with a varied
acceleration. The acceleration apears as a sloped line, indicating that the acceleration is
changing. The graph on the right shows an object decelerating, stopping acceleration (
uniform speed ) and then beginning to accelerate in the south direction.

Conclusion
The velocity vs time graph is arguably the most important one of all because the two most
important Uniform Acceleration formulae can be deduced from it.

When a velocity vs time graph of an object's motion looks like a horizontal line the object's
acceleration is zero, Vf = Vi and usually the most basic formulae for motion are used.