Distance-time diagram (mechanics)

A distance-time diagram (also time-distance diagram ) is the graphic representation of the path covered by a moving body over time.

The time t is entered on the abscissa in the coordinate system and the distance s covered on the ordinate . Simple or simplified ts function curves can be summarized in algebraic equations; a constant speed leads to a linear ts function and thus to a straight line in the time-distance diagram.

If it is not the distance covered but the location of the observed body that is plotted, the display may change. An example of a time-location diagram, which is called a time-distance diagram, is the picture timetable .

literature

• Trautwein manual (collective of authors): Physics - basic knowledge , Munich 2003
• W. Schweizer: Lambacher / Schweizer - Analysis , Klett Stuttgart