Speed and Velocity

What are you calculating when you divide the distance an object travelled by the amount of time it took for that object to travel that distance?

• velocity

• slope

• motion

• speed

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Distance ÷ Time =

• velocity

• speed

• acceleration

• direction

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total distance travelled divided by total time is...

• speed

• velocity

• acceleration

• average speed

The speedometer in a car gives the car's _________ speed.

• average

• instantaneous

• speed

• velocity

The relationship between speed, distance, and time can be written as a(n) ________.

• instantaneous speed

• slope

• equation

• velocity

The SI unit for speed is_______.

• meters per second

• miles per hour

• miles per second

• meters per hour

The speed at which an object is moving at a given instant in time.

• speed

• Instantaneous speed

• Average speed

• final speed

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speed in a given direction

• velocity

• average speed

• instantaneous speed

• speed

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slope =

• rise x run

• rise + run

• rise/run

• run/rise

The _______ of a distance-versus-time graph shows you the speed of a moving object.

• average

• run

• rise

• slope

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