The average speed of the whole travel is equal to <u>400 mph</u>.
Why?
From the statement, we know that whole travel is divided into three parts. For the first part (traveling from New York to Chicago), we have that it was 3.25 hours and the covered distance was half of the total distance (1400mi). For the second part, we have that it was 1 hour (layover time), and the covered no distance. For the third part (traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles), we have that it was 2.75 hours, and it took the other half of the total distance (1400mi).
We can calculate the average speed of the whol travel using the following formula:
Now, substituting and calculating, we have:
Hence, we have the average speed of the whole travel is equal to 400 mph.
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If there was any way to do that, then your teacher wouldn't
need to keep you coming into class every day and doing
homework every night. She could just give you the 3 or 4
paragraphs and a few pictures that you're asking me for,
and bada-bing ! you'd know it !
The time it takes, and the amount of homework it takes, is
EXACTLY the time you spent hearing about it in class.
(Unless you're some kind of genius savant prodigy, which
you're not and I'm not.)
I think the correct answer is C
If the spaceship's Physicist happens to be hanging out of one side
of the ship, and he measures the speed of the photons as they pass
him and leave the ship, he'll see them passing him at 'c' ... the speed
of light.
When those photons pass somebody who happens to be in their
path, and he decides to measure their speed, he'll see them move
past him at 'c' ... the speed of light.
It doesn't matter whether the observer who measures them is
moving, or at what speed.
And it doesn't matter what source the photons come from, or
whether the source is moving, or at what speed.
And it doesn't matter what the photons' wavelength/frequency is ...
anything from radio to gamma rays.
The photons pass everybody at 'c' ... the speed of light.
Yes, I hear you. That can't be true. It's crazy.
Maybe it's crazy, but it's true.
