Average Speed
The formula for average speed.
What is total distance divided by total time?
Speed is this.
What is the change in distance over a certain amount of time?
The formula for acceleration.
What is (final velocity – initial velocity) ÷ time?
The main difference between speed and velocity.
What is velocity includes direction?
Bob looks up. He sees the White House. He is in this country.
What is the United States?
If you travel 100 km in 2 hours, this is your average speed.
What is 50 km/h?
A vehicle goes 100 m in 5 seconds.The speed is this.
What is 20 m/s?
A car speeds up from 0 to 20 m/s in 4 seconds. What is the acceleration?
What is 5 m/s²?
A person walks 5 m east, then 5 m west.Their average velocity is this.
What is 0 m/s?
Bob wakes up and finds himself in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy. He is in this country.
What is Russia?
This is what happens to your average speed if you stop for lunch during a trip.
What is it decreases?
Units used to measure speed.
What are meters per second or kilometers per hour?
This type of acceleration slows you down.
What is negative acceleration or deceleration?
The equation for velocity.
What is distance÷time?
Bob is biking around Ottawa. He is in this country.
What is Canada?
You drive 60 km at 60 km/h and another 60 km at 30 km/h. Your average speed is this number.
What is 40 km/h?
A car’s speedometer shows this kind of speed.
What is instantaneous speed?
Units used to measure acceleration.
What are meters per second squared (m/s²)?
A car moves north at 25 m/s. It's velocity is this.
What is 25 m/s north?
Bob is touring the Eifel Tower. He is in this country.
What is France.
A runner jogs 4 km in 30 minutes and then walks 2 km in 30 minutes. The speed is this number.
What is 6 km / 1 hour = 6 km/h?
If your speed is constant, this is happening to your acceleration.
What is it is zero?
A train slows from 30 m/s to 10 m/s in 5 seconds. Find the acceleration.
What is -4 m/s²?
A runner jogs 800 m in a circle and ends where they started in 400 seconds. Their average velocity is this.
What is 0 m/s?
Bob is warming up in the McMurdo Station. He is in this continent.
What is Antarctica?