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Distance time graphs

A distance time graph shows how far something has travelled at every moment, and the graph builder draws it from a journey table you edit point by point, on GCSE graph paper. Open the tangent tool and the gradient at any moment is read as a speed, with the calculation revealed one step at a time.

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Why this works in Physics

The graph above is a multi stage journey, six points the teacher typed into the table. The class reads the flat section as stationary, the steep section as fast, and the gradient as the speed, and the tangent tool puts a number on that. Place it at 35 seconds and the readout gives 4 metres per second, then step the reveal from the construction to the formula, the values and the answer, so pupils see where the number comes from.

Pupils confuse the height of the line with speed, and a flat line at 20 metres with a moving object. Editing a point live, dragging a stage steeper or longer, shows the shape change with the numbers, which a printed graph cannot do. The same journey can be sent to stimulus questions for exam style questions about that exact graph, and downloaded free for a worksheet.

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