Determining speed and acceleration magnitude from graph

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Homework Statement



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1:At 7 sec, the speed is as high as it gets.
2:The acceleration magnitude at 15 sec is ... the acceleration magnitude at 38 sec.
3:The x-acceleration is ... zero at 58 sec.
4:The speed is ... zero at 23 sec.
5:The speed at 46 sec is ... the speed at 73 sec.
6:The x-acceleration is ... zero at 7 sec .

Homework Equations



The answers can be any of the following, True, False, Equal to, less than.

The Attempt at a Solution



1: True, because the speed is the slope of the line, and this is the steepest slope.
2: Less than, because at 15 the acceleration is 0, and the acceleration at 38 is positive
3:Less than, because the car is decelerating
4: Equal to
5: Greater than
6: equal too, slope is constantI can't get all the answers right at once.

If you could help that would be great!

Thanks
 
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  • Distance (m) versus Time (s) graph: distance rises linearly from 0 at t=0 to about 300 m near 15 s, stays flat at 300 m until about 33 s, then rises steeply to about 960 m at 60 s and continues to about 1160 m at 80 s.
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berkeman said:
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Thanks, it was showing up for me.

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