Velocity-time ... graph can be used to work out the acceleration. A steep line means high acceleration. A line upwards curving to become steeper means that the vehicle is accelerating at an ...

Velocity-time graphs show velocity on the vertical axis. Acceleration is still represented by the gradient. Key fact The gradient of speed-time and velocity-time graphs represent acceleration.

They are afraid to embrace the power of the graph ... to find the acceleration from this distance-time data. Let's go back to our kinematic equation (assuming we start with zero velocity).