What does the area under a distance vs time graph represent?

[BlackWyvern]

What does the area under a distance vs time graph represent?

The units would be ms. Other than that, I have no idea. Thanks.

 

[BlackWyvern]

I just found that there is a thing called Absement, which may very well be what I'm looking at. It's units are length x distance.

 

[Saladsamurai]

I just found that there is a thing called Absement, which may very well be what I'm looking at. It's units are length x distance.

Let us know what you find if anything. I was thinking of the same thing last night.

Casey

 

[BlackWyvern]

http://wearcam.org/absement/examples.htm

Decent explanation there. I think I'll leave it at that, if anyone else wants to discuss and provide their insight, feel free to do so.

 

[bob1182006]

There's a small bit of an article on wikipedia that talks about high order derivatives of position (jerk, crackle, pop), and low order derivatives (high order integrals) (absement, absity,abserk).

Some applications of absement seem interesting.

 

[Saladsamurai]

Look at the chart of derivatives! It goes even farther than the -1th!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivatives_of_displacement#Absement_versus_presement

Edit: Holy Simultaneous Triple Reply Batman!

 

[BlackWyvern]

Yeah, that's where I found the term, completely by accident as searching for 'area under displacement time curve' was generally finding the string "area under velocity time curve is displacement".

Still is a little confusing to me though.