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What can you say about the nature of motion of a body if its displacement-time graph is
(a) a straight line parallel to time axis ?
(b) a straight line inclined to the time axis with an acute angle?
(c) a straight line inclined to the time axis with an obtuse angle ?
(d) a curve.

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(a) body is stationary (or no motion), (b) motion away from the starting point with uniform velocity (c) motion towards the starting point with uniform velocity (d) motion with variable velocity.
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ICSE-MOTION IN ONE DIMENSION -EXERCISE -2 (B)
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