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

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/Derivat...rsus_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.