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What is an example of something at constant speed but not constant velocity?
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You are driving your car with cruise control but you steer around a bend in the highway. The cruise control keeps your speed constant, but by steering you change your direction and thus your velocity is not constant.
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What is the different between constant velocity and constant speed?
constant velocity is when you maintain speed and direction, this usually is in a straight line, and constant speed means that your speed is always constant at all times.
If a ferris wheel is rotating at constant speed is it moving at a constant velocity?
No. Velocity combines speed and the direction of motion.Constant velocity is constant speed in a straight line.In circular motion, the velocity is always changing even if the speed is constant,because the direction is always changing.
How can you determine the speed of an object that has constant motion if you have a distance vs time graph of the motion?
If constant motion means constant velocity then, total distance / total time = avg velocity => avg speed constant velocity => avg velocity = velocity
What is formulas finding speed and velocity?
velocity = distance / time There are also some formulae involving acceleration; for example, in the case of constant acceleration: velocity = initial velocity + acceleration x time If the acceleration is not constant, an integral is used instead.
What is the velocity if the distance is 700000 miles at a speed of 250000?
If the direction of motion is constant then the velocity is the same as the speed in that direction. If the direction is not constant, the information given is nowhere near sufficient to calculate the velocity.
What is an Example of constant velocity?
constant velocity means the speed and direction are the same.
What is speed that does not change - called?
constant
What is nature of velocity in constant speed?
Velocity magnitude is unchanging at constant speed. The direction might change (velocity is a vector with both size (speed) and direction) if , for example, you are driving around a curve at a constant speed.
If a car moves at constant speed also moving at constant velocity give an example?
A car moving at constant speed in a straight line is also moving at constant velocity.
Can a body have constant velocity when it has constant speed?
Of course. In fact, in order to have constant velocity, it must have constant speed.What you really want to know: Can a body have changing velocity when it has constant speed ?The answer to that one is also "yes", for example when it is moving in a circle, the speed is constant but the velocity is changing all the time (in direction).
What is an example of constant speed with changing velocity?
Velocity is a vector, thus it has a direction. Therefore, you can change the velocity by changing direction. A great example of this is a ball on a string spinning at a constant speed, but it is continually changing direction, therefore, even though the speed is constant the velocity changes at every instant.
Is something accelerating with a constant speed?
That is possible, for example, if an object moves around in a circle. In this case, the velocity changes all the time; the speed does not.
What is an example of constant speed with a change in velocity?
rotational motion
What is an example of an object moving at constant speed and constant velocity?
Photon or rather light
Can an object have constant velocity and but variable speed?
No. Velocity has two parts, speed and direction A constant velocity means that both the speed and the direction must be constant. So a constant velocity must have a constant speed.
What is the difference of constant speed and changing velocity?
Constant means that something doesn't change; "changing" means that it does. Speed is a magnitude - measured (for example) in meters per second. Velocity, on the other hand, is a vector - which means that the direction is also considered. If an object changes direction - for example, moving in a circle - it is possible to do so at a constant speed. However, since the direction changes, the velocity will - by definition - change.
If you have a constant velocity do you have to have a constant speed?
Yes, speed is the scalar of velocity.
