An object with non-zero mass (even negligible mass is non-zero) will never reach the speed of light. Due to relativistic effects, each "unit" of acceleration becomes less effective at increasing your velocity (relative to some other object, of course) as your relative velocity approaches the speed of light.
And even if there was a way, If you would accelerate to the 99,99% of the speed light in just 1 second, you would experience a G-force of aprox. 30,600,000 g's which is enough to kill you in a few seconds
It is called air pressure
How do we find the Average Speed ?
The Average Speed is the distance traveled for the object, divided by the elapsed time taken to travel that distance, so the formula is :
<em>S = D / T</em>
where S = Average Speed, D = Distance, and T = Times
Here the object is the ball, the distance is 9 meters and the time elapsed for the ball to roll down the street is 3.5 seconds. Applying the formula we get :
S = 9 / 3.5 ≈ 2.6 metres per second
The ≈ symbols (which is the <em>wavy equal sign</em>) means we can't write the exact result, because there is an infinite quantity of numbers after the decimal point. So we need to give an approximation, since the result is 2.57142857142857...etc. we choosed to round up the result to 2.6.
