There is NOT a difference in speed between a car going forwards at 5 m/s and a car moving backwards at 5 m/s.
Speed is just the rate of change of the position of an object. It is calculated by dividing the change in position (distance traveled) by the time it takes to move said distance.
The distance between the two points is always positive because the direction does not matter.
However, if we are looking for the velocity, the direction DOES matter. In this example, the velocity moving forwards is 5 m/s while the velocity moving backwards is -5 m/s.
In other words:
<em>Speed </em>is looking at the <em>magnitude</em>
<em>Velocity </em>is looking at the <em>magnitude </em><em>and </em><em>direction.</em>
The whales tail which is called fluke are used for swimming and also used when they stick their tail out of the water into the air, swing it around, and the slap it on the water's surface.
Answer:
As on all map projections, shapes or sizes are distortions of the true layout of the Earth's surface. The Mercator projection exaggerates areas far from the equator. For example: Greenland appears the same size as Africa, when in reality Africa's area is 14 times greater.
Explanation:
B phenotype (think pheno= physical)
The study is called Ecology