Physics

# Is a car speedomoteter show instantaneous speed average speed or velocity?

###### Answered 2011-09-25 20:19:24

The car speedometer shows instantaneous speed.

-- It can't show average speed, because it doesn't know anything about

what your speed was at any time in the past, before this moment.

-- It can't show velocity, because it doesn't know anything about

the direction you're going.

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BecuZ average is the same limit and the other is nesting velocity

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It reads instantaneous speed, and tells you nothing about average speed.

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Yes. For a start, this happens when the object moves at a constant velocity. Also, if moving in a straight line, even if the object changes speed there must needs be a moment when its instantaneous speed is equal to its average speed - since it cannot change speed suddenly, it must do so gradually.

Only if speed is constant. There can be no acceleration if the average speed is equal to the instantaneous speed.

Yes. In smooth linear motion, the average speed and the instantaneous speed are equal.

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