Position vs. Time to Velocity vs. Time (qualitative)

Work in progress to help students translate position vs. time graphs into velocity and acceleration vs. time graphs. This activity presents students with a variety of position graphs with non-zero constant accelerations. A slider is used to move a point on the graph at which a tangent line is drawn. Students are asked to observe the change in the slope of the tangent line, link it to the change in velocity, and then use that information to make a velocity and acceleration vs. time graph.

By Trevor Register