Assume the motion when you are in the car or in the school bus to go to the school.
To describe the motion the first thing you need is a point of reference. Assume this is your house.
This should be a description:
- When you are sitting and the car has not started to move you are at rest.
- The car starts moving from rest, gaining speed, accelerating. You start to move away from your house, with a positive velocity (from you house to your school) and positive acceleration (velocity increases).
- The car reaches a limit speed of 40mph, and then moves at constant speed. The motion is uniform, the velocity is constant, positive, since you move in the same direction), and the acceleration is zero.
- When the car approaches the school, the driver starts to slow down. Then, you speed is lower but yet the velocity is positive, as you are going in the same direction. The acceleration is negative because it is in the opposite direction of the motion.
- When the car stops, you are again at rest: zero velocity and zero acceleration.
- In all the path your velocity was positive, constant at times (zero acceleration) and variable at others (accelerating or decelerating).
- When you comeback home, then you can start to compute negative velocities, as you will be decreasing the distance from your point of reference (your house).
Answer:
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Explanation:
Answer:
Yes
Explanation:
Since velocity is a vector, meaning it also relies on direction, the average speed can be different from her average velocity. An example would be if a runner turned around and ran backward after running 10 meters and returned to her starting point. If you took her average velocity of the entire trip it would actually be 0 but her average speed obviously would not be. This is why velocity can be negative but speed cannot.
