VELOCITY AND SPEED

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Take 2 min to Compare between the following motion diagrams
 FOCUS QUESTION
 How do you describe how fast
something is moving?
Watch the video and compare between speed and
velocity

https://youtu.be/X4Wxd4m-QVc
https://youtu.be/R8m9VJfwYrc
Velocity and speed
Average speed v= average
= velocity V
Example 1 
A man walks 7 km in 2 hours and 2 km in 1 hour in 

the same direction.

a) What is the man's average speed for the whole
journey?
b) What is the man's average velocity for the whole
?journey
 PROBLEM 1
A man walks 7 km East in 2 hours and then 2.5 km 

West in 1 hour.
a) What is the man's average speed for the whole
journey?
b) What is the man's average velocity for the
?whole journey
PROBLEM 2
You start walking from a point on a circular field of radius
.km and 1 hour later you are at the same point 0.5

a) What is your average speed for the whole journey?

?b) What is your average velocity for the whole journey
Which runner won the race?
? And why
 Velocity –speed graph

 Find ?
 Slope
 the Average speed
 The average velocity
From the graph find

 Average
velocity

 Instantaneous
Velocity at 8 sec
Instantaneous
Velocity
Speed and
direction of
The object at
particular
Instant
 Velocity and Speed

Consider the position- •

time graph of two
.joggers
The slope of a position- •
time graph for an object
is the object’s average
velocity, which is
represented by the
:equation
 Velocity and Speed

• The sign of the

slope tells you what
direction the object
is moving.
 Quiz
Heather and
Juanita are
traveling
east. What is
Heather’s
average
?speed

A km/h 3.0 C km/h 2.8

CORREC
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B km/h 4.8 D km/h 6.0

THANK YOU 