Calculating Speed and Velocity

Jacob ran a 5k in 24 minutes.

• Speed

• Velocity

• Acceleration

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An airplane travels 1260 km from San Francisco northeast to Chicago in 3.5 hours.

• Speed

• Velocity

• Acceleration

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

Distance ÷ Time =

• velocity

• speed

• acceleration

• direction

total distance travelled divided by total time is...

• speed

• velocity

• acceleration

• average speed

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

• average

• instantaneous

• speed

• velocity

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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

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

• speed

• Instantaneous speed

• Average speed

• final speed

speed in a given direction

• velocity

• average speed

• instantaneous speed

• speed

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