suppose I asked you to time a 100 meter spring in the Olympics, but I give you a stopwatch that is measured in units of 15 seconds?

如果我要求你,在奥林匹克数给100米短跑计时，但我会给你一个秒表,它可以测出15秒的大小？

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but you can sort of tell that the particle is moving slowly or rapidly by looking at the space in between these tick marks.

但你可以通过观察计时点之间的距离,来判断该物体运动的快慢

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We're also posting a practice exam for you to take, so after you're completely done your studying, it's good to have everything done before you take the practice exam, and then sit down just with this sheet here and your calculator, and ideally a timer, and make sure you can do the practice exam in the allotted amount of time.

我们还将给出一份模拟试题，因此在你完全复习好之后，最好先复习完,再做这份模拟试题，坐下来,只拿出这张表与计算器，最好还有个计时器，确保自己完成模拟题,在规定的时间内。

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First of all, negative time should not bother anybody; t=0 is when I set the clock, I measured time forward, but yesterday would be t = -1 day, right?

首先,负的时间对我们不存在任何干扰,t=0使我们设定的初始时间,我是用顺序计时,所以昨天就可以记为-1天,对吗

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