Speed and Velocity

Maria and Rosa are siblings. They

are both medical frontliners. Their
house to the hospital is only
walking distance. Maria decided to
leave their house as early as 6:00
in the morning while Rosa leaves at
6:15 in the morning to go to their
work. Both of them arrived at the
same time.

Who travelled faster?

Speed
defined as how fast an object is moving
rate at which an object covers distance
operationally defined as distance divided by time

speed = distance
time
Speed
Speed is a scalar quantity. Scalar quantity has only
magnitude.

Example of speed: 25 meter per second (m/s).

The speed at any instant in time is called

instantaneous speed.

average speed is the average of all the

instantaneous speed
Speed
Speedometer
is a device used
to measure the
instantaneous
speed of a
vehicle.
Velocity
rate at which an object changes its position

can be described as: Velocity = Displacement

time
 Velocity is a vector quantity. Vector quantity has
both magnitude and direction.

 Example of velocity: 10 meter per second (m/s)

East.
 Speed Velocity
(Scalar) (Vector)
5 m/s 6km/hr NE
10km/hr 60mi/hr S

6km/hr NE 5 m/s 60mi/hr S 10km/hr

magnitude direction
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