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Speed is the rate of change in distance, whereas velocity is speed and direction of travel. Acceleration is the change in velocity (including direction).
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Avg velocity is the speed you are going. Constant acceleration is the rate you increase your speed. = =
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What best describes the difference between speed and acceleration?
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When you press your bicycle's brakeswhat happens to your speedvelocityand acceleration?
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Acceleration is the change of speed and or direction of an object's motion?
Yes. Acceleration is defined as a change in velocity. Since velocity is a measurement of speed and direction, acceleration is the change of speed and/or direction of an object's motion.Another AnswerAcceleration is the difference in velocity (which is the difference in displacement / difference in time) divided by the difference in time. Acceleration is not directly related to the change of speed or the change in direction. They will however affect the overall time.
What are the similarities and differences between speed velocity and acceleration?
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What is the different between velocity and acceleration?
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What are difference between speed and velocity?
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What is the difference between uniform motion and constant acceleration?
"Uniform motion" means constant velocity ... constant speed in a straight line. "Acceleration" means any change in velocity ... speed or direction. So 'uniform motion' means zero acceleration.
What is the difference between velocity and acceleration?
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What is the relationship between motion speed velocity and acceleration?
Speed is a measure of motion and velocity just includes what direction it happens in.Acceleration is a measure of changes in speed.
What is the difference between an object with constant acceleration and an object with constant speed?
Constant speed means that the speed doesn't change.Constant acceleration means that the acceleration doesn't change. The velocity WILL change in this case - unless the acceleration happens to be zero. So will the speed - note that in circular motion, both the acceleration and the velocity change all the time, even if the speed doesn't change.
What is the differnece between speed acceleration and velocity?
Velocity is the change in displacement in a unit time in a specific direction. Speed is the magnitude of velocity and has no direction. Acceleration is the change in velocity in a unit time.
What is speed velocity and acceleration?
Speed and velocity same thing and acceleration is how fast it can get to a speed. More acceleration will get faster quicker
What is the technical difference between speed and velocity?
The technical difference is that speed has no direction but velocity has one.
What is the biggest difference between speed and velocity?
velocity is speed with direction; velocity is a vector and speed is a scalar
What is the difference between constant velocity and variable velocity?
Constant velocity has speed always constant along the direction with respect to time. Variable velocity changes its speed with respect to time. Constant velocity has zero acceleration. Variable velocity has non-zero acceleration . An object moving at a constant velocity maintains both the same speed and direction. An object moving at a variable velocity can be changing speed or direction of travel or both.
Are speed and acceleration the same?
No. Speed is the magnitude of velocity and acceleration is the change of velocity in time.
What is one similarity to speed velocity acceleration?
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What is the acceleration in science if you know average speed and time?
If you know average speed then you cannot determine the acceleration: the very nature of being a average hides all the increases and decreases in speed which are the accelerations (technically, acceleration is change of speed in a direction). All average speed tells you is the constant speed at which you require to travel to cover the given distance in the given time; as the speed is constant, the acceleration is zero.
How does acceleration affect speed and velocity?
Acceleration changes the speed - usually increases it. A reduction is speed is negative acceleration , or deceleration. Acceleration can change the speed or direction (or both) of velocity.
What are the importance of speed velocity and acceleration in sports?
what are important speed, velocity and acceleration in several sports
What is the difference between an object's speed and a object's velocity?
The difference between an object's speed and an object's velocity is that the object's speed is how fast it is going, and the object's velocity is how many units of speed the object has traveled.
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