Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics (4th Edition)

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Chapter 2 - Kinematics in One Dimension - Stop to Think 2.2 - Page 40: 1

Answer

C

Work Step by Step

For position-versus-time to velocity-versus-time graphs, you want to look at the slopes on the position-versus-time graphs. We can see that the the slope is initially positive. Then at a certain point, the slope slowly decreases to zero (horizontal line). We can rule out graphs a and d because both start with negative velocity, which would mean that the initial slope in the position-versus-time graph would be negative. We can also rule out graph b because it starts at 0, which would mean that the initial slope in the position-versus-time graph would be zero.
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