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Whats the difference between speed and velocity of an object

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The difference between speed and velocity is that the speed is a scalar quantity which means that you can say that this object has a speed of x m/s but you don't have to define its direction
while the velocity is a vector quantity which means that you have to express the velocity by which it moves in x,y and z directions and its norm is the speed

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a) Total time of round trip is the sum of time upriver and time downriver

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