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If a ball rolls down an incline from left to right, the slope of that incline is?

 Jan 16, 2015

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Well, of course, this depends upon one's frame of reference....but.....if, from your frame of reference, the b***s rolls downhill from left to right, the slope is negative, since we genarally consider a line that falls from left to right as having a negative slope.....

Of course, an observer on the other side of the hill might consider the slope 'positive"...

 

 Jan 17, 2015
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The slope is the gradient.

I guess that is what you want?

 Jan 17, 2015
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Well, of course, this depends upon one's frame of reference....but.....if, from your frame of reference, the b***s rolls downhill from left to right, the slope is negative, since we genarally consider a line that falls from left to right as having a negative slope.....

Of course, an observer on the other side of the hill might consider the slope 'positive"...

 

CPhill Jan 17, 2015

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