I am hoping that if you learned your calculus, you learned about derivatives and so on by looking at x versus t.

我希望你们学习微积分时,通过观察x-t图来,学习导数等内容

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So what I've said so far is, a particle moving in time from point to point can be represented by a graph, x versus t.

到目前为止,我说过,一个质点随时间的连续运动,可以用一幅x-t图来表示

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So what we would like to do is to describe what the object does by drawing a graph of time versus space and the graph would be something like this.

然后我们要做的就是描述这个物体的运动,通过画一个"x-t"图,画出来的图就像这样

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