Determining Car Acceleration from Y & T Values

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Can someone tell me how I would determine the value of a car's acceleration from
a graph using only y and t values(i.e., not computing velocity)?

Thanks for the help,
Kevin
 
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Husker70 said:
Can someone tell me how I would determine the value of a car's acceleration from
a graph using only y and t values(i.e., not computing velocity)?

Thanks for the help,
Kevin

It would help if you speicify what y and t are. My guess is that they are distance and time, but it is up to you to give the definition.