TVBI-Q3 ,Ep2 Science 7

Name: _______________________________ Section: __________

Learning Competency:
Describe the motion of an object in terms of distance or displacement, speed or velocity,
and acceleration; S7FE - IIIa – 1

Key Concepts

Speed and Velocity

Speed is the rate of distance covered at a given time. It is calculated by dividing the
distance by time.
Mathematically,

, in symbols
Example:

John and Mary were given assignments to record the measured distance and time spent in
walking from their home to school. John’s home is 400 meters while Mary is 200 meters away
from school. It took 400 seconds for John while Mary needed 200 seconds to reach school.

When a direction is associated with speed, it refers to the quantity known as

velocity. Thus, velocity is a speed in each direction. Since velocity has direction, it uses
displacement instead of distance.
 The figure below shows the difference between distance and displacement.

Using the information in the figure above, suppose you take 0.5 hour to travel from home
to school, what is your average speed? average velocity?

Note: There is a difference between average and instantaneous speed as well as average and
instantaneous velocity.

Average speed- is the total distance traveled divided by the total time in traveling that distance
Instantaneous speed- is the speed at an instant in time. The speedometer reads the instantaneous
speed of the vehicle.

Average velocity- is the total displacement (final position- initial position) traveled divided by
the total time in traveling that displacement.

Instantaneous velocity- is the velocity of an object at an instant. It refers to how fast an object is
moving at a given instant and in that direction.

Activity 1

Directions: Answer the given problems showing your complete solutions.

1. Jason drove her car and travelled 250 km, East in 5 hours to pick up a friend.
Calculate her velocity.

2. Bianca walks 100m to go to the market in just 50 seconds. What is her speed?
Answer key:

1. 2. Given:
d= 100 m
t= 50 s

Asked:
v=?
Solution:

Formula:

speed= distance/ time

v= 100m/50s

v= 2 m/s