need help with a physics question - we have displacement time data and we need to plot the displacement time, acceleration time, and velocity time graphs in excel. please help - need to find the tangent between the points, dont know what to do
+33616 If you just have displacement and time data points, you will need to construct velocity by taking the differences of the displacement values and dividing by the corresponding differences of the time values. I suggest assigning the resulting velocities to the averages of the times used. Similarly, for acceleration, take the differences of the velocities divided by the differences of the corresponding times.
Alternatively, fit a known function to the displacement vs time points and then differentiate that function to find velocities and accelerations.
Without seeing your data, it's difficult to be provide more specific advice.
