Velocity

Velocity
• Velocity is the rate of change in displacement.
• It is a speed in a given direction.

* A car traveling at 80 km/h north and another

car traveling at 80 km/h south have the same
speed but different velocities.
• If the velocity of a car is calculated from point
to point of its travel, and there is no change in
its magnitude and direction, the car is said to
be at constant velocity.
• The velocity at different time intervals is called
instantaneous velocity. The instantaneous
velocity of an object is the instantaneous
speed toward the direction that is moving.
• Based on convention, the velocity of an object
moving forward or to the right is positive, and
that of an object moving backward or to the
left is negative.

v = -20 m/s v = +20 m/s

 Exercises
1. The speedometer of a car moving east reads
60 km/h. It passes another car that travels
west at 60 km/h. Do both cars have the same
speed? Do they have the same velocity?
2. Calculate the speed and velocity of a man
moving 45m to the north and 36m to the
south in 27 seconds.
3. A car travels a distance of 40 km from Manila
to a town in Laguna (south). Assume that the car
traveled in constant speed. What is its average
speed (km/h) if traveling time is from 7:00 a.m.
to 7:30 a.m.? its average velocity (km/h)?
Suppose that after a business talk with a friend,
the driver of the car drives straight back to
Manila from 11:55 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. What was
the car’s average speed during the round trip?
its average velocity?
 Accelerated Motion
• In uniform motion, both the speed and the
direction of velocity do not change throughout
the course of motion.
• In non-uniform or accelerated motion, the
direction or magnitude of velocity or both may
vary throughout the motion or during some
parts of the motion.