You know that a large displacement in a small amount of time means a large velocity and that velocity has units of distance divided by time, such as miles per hour or kilometers per hour.

Although speed and velocity are often words used interchangeably, in physics, they are distinct concepts. Velocity (v) is a vector quantity that measures displacement (or change in position, Δs) …

Learn how to find an object’s instantaneous speed or velocity in three ways - by using calculus, by looking at the slope of a given point on a graph of an object’s rate vs. time, or by using kinematic …

A bird is flying with a horizontal velocity v x = 9.3 m/s and a vertical velocity v y = 8.6 m/s. Calculate the magnitude and angle, relative to the horizontal, of the bird's total velocity. Enter your answers with …

Learn how to interpret the motion of an object represented on a velocity vs. time graph.

Acceleration is the name we give to any process where the velocity changes. Since velocity is a speed and a direction, there are only two ways for you to accelerate: change your speed or change your …

Velocity or speed? Instantaneous or average? Keep building your physics vocabulary.

Because, velocity is a vector quantity and speed is a scalar quantity, also velocity is how fast a object displaces in a period of time and speed is how fast a object travels in a period of time.

You can think of speed as velocity without the direction. They both have the same units, meters per second as a standard unit, or in a more day-to-day life, unit would be miles per hour.

This equation can be derived by combining two equations for average velocity. Average velocity is defined as displacement divided by the time during which that displacement occurred: