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11 years ago
I am confused! I know instantaneous acceleration is tangent to acceleration graph. But then does that mean instantaneous velocity equal to acceleration since acceleration is tangent of velocity?
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11 years ago
Instantaneous acceleration is the tangent of the **velocity** graph, not the tangent of the acceleration graph.  That's probably why you're confused.

If you have a graph of acceleration versus time, and you want to know the instantaneous acceleration at any particular time, just read the graph at that time - you don't need to measure the tangent or calculate the slope.

You only need to use the tangent or slope if you need to figure out the acceleration from the graph of velocity versus time.
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10 years ago
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