Changing Acceleration

• The body travels with increasing acceleration as the gradient of the

speed-time graph increases
What is the acceleration of the body at t = 2 s?
• Draw the tangent to the graph at t = 2 s
• Make the triangle with the tangent as its hypotenuse

Gradient = ( y2 – y1 ) ÷ ( x2 – x1 )

• Acceleration
at t = 2 s is
gradient of the
graph at 2 s.

• This is equal
80 m / s to 40 m / s2

2s
What is the acceleration of the body at t = 0 s?

• Acceleration at t = 0 s is
gradient of the graph at
0 s.

• This is equal to 0 m / s2
What is the acceleration of the body at t = 1.5 s?
What is the acceleration of the body at t = 1.5 s?

• Acceleration at t = 1.5 s
is gradient of the graph
at 1.5 s.

• This is equal to 29 m / s2

50 m / s
1.75 s
What is the total distance travelled by the body?

• Distance travelled by the body

is the area under the speed –
time graph
• Count the number of squares
under the graph (between the
graph and the time-axis)
• Multiply the number of
squares with the value of each
square
THUMBS UP FOR GRAPH REPRESENTING
NON-UNIFORM ACCELERATION
 NON-UNIFORM ACCELERATION
• A body is said to have non-uniform acceleration
if the velocity of the body increases unequally in
equal intervals of time, howsoever small these
intervals maybe