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EQUATIONS FOR MOTION BY GRAPHICAL MEATHOD

When an object moves along a straight line with uniform acceleration, it is possible to relate its velocity, acceleration during motion and the distance covered by it in a certain time interval by a set of equations known as the equations of motion. There are three such equations. These are:

Where u is the initial velocity of the object which moves with uniform acceleration a for time t, v is the final velocity, and s is the distance traveled by the object in time t. Eq. (5) describes the velocity-time relation and Eq. (6) represents the position-time relation. Eq. (7), which represents the relation between the position and the velocity, can be obtained from Eqs. (5) and (6) by eliminating t. These three equations can be derived by graphical method.