What can you say about the motion of a body if its displacement time graph is a straight line parallel to Y axis?

When the slope of the distance-time graph is a straight line parallel to the time axis, the object is at the same position as time passes. That means the object is at rest.

Distance time graph

A distance-time graph shows how far an object has travelled in a given time. It is a simple line graph that denotes distance versus time findings on the graph.

• Distance is plotted on the Y-axis.
• Time is plotted on the X-axis.

• If the distance-time graph is a straight line then the motion is uniform.
• If the distance-time graph of anybody is given, its speed can be calculated using the slope of the graph.
• The slope of the straight-line graph is the same irrespective of the interval which is chosen. This implies that the speed of an object under uniform motion remains constant.

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