Hello, I'm charlie and I need help with a physics graph. The graph's axes are average time and average acceleration. there are oly two points on the graph. After the average time .7 seconds the average acceleration is 6.13 m/s squared. Then after 1.36 seconds, the average accel. is negative 5.79m/s squared.

 

The thing I need help with is that I don't know how many quadrants this graph will take or if it goes into the negatives. Lastly, It would be informative if someone could tell me what a change in average accel. is called

 

Thanks in advance:D

 

please:confused:

Time is always positive, so the two quadrants for t <0 won't be used, but your acceleration is both positive and negative so you will use both of those.

 

The rate at which acceleration changes is called the jerk (or sometimes jolt)

http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/jerk.html