Tag
Rate Of Change
Entries tagged rate of change.
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Concept
Acceleration
Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity, and because velocity has both a size and a direction, an object accelerates whenever it speeds up, slows down, or merely changes direction, even at constant speed.
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ConceptSpeed and velocity
Speed is how fast the distance odometer is ticking, a plain number with no direction, while velocity is the rate of change of displacement, a directed quantity that can be zero, positive, or negative even while speed stays constant.
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