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 Displacement - Time Graphs 

Displacement is how far you have traveled from any particular location.  You could go on a long journey and come home again.  In this case your distance traveled would be quite far, but your displacement would be zero

Look at this displacement time graph:

Distance 
(metres)

200

 
   0            20                                                                        120                         160

time (seconds)
Describe the motion in  the first 20 seconds
Describe the motion in  the next 100 seconds
Describe the motion in  the last 40 seconds

What is the velocity in the first 20 seconds? m/s
What is the velocity in the last 40 seconds? m/s

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