Learning Intentions
- To learn the difference between distance and displacement
- To learn the difference between speed and velocity
- To learn how to calculate speed and velocity
Notes
Using the Internet, answer the following questions.
- What is the difference between a scalar and a vector?
- What is the difference between distance and displacement?
- How is speed calculated?
- How is velocity calculated?
- How do you convert meters per second to kilometers per hour?
- How do you convert kilometers per hour to meters per second?
- What is wrong with the equation in the picture below?
Questions
Watch the video below, and answer the questions as a class.
What Are Speed and Velocity? (8:22)
- A car completes a lap of a 1,600 meter track in 55 seconds.
- What is the average speed, in metres per second?
- What is the average speed, in kilometres per hour?
- What is the average velocity, in metres per second?
- What is the average velocity, in kilometres per hour?
- In 4 seconds, a car drives 16 metres forwards.
- What distance does the car travel?
- What is the average speed of the car, in m/s?
- What is the displacement of the car?
- What is the average velocity of the car, in m/s?
- In 3 seconds, a car drives 8 metres backwards.
- What distance does the car travel?
- What is the average speed of the car, in m/s?
- What is the displacement of the car?
- What is the average velocity of the car, in m/s?
- Combining the previous 2 questions: In 7 seconds, a car drives 16 metres forwards, then 8 metres backwards.
- What distance does the car travel?
- What is the average speed of the car, in m/s?
- What is the displacement of the car?
- What is the average velocity of the car, in m/s?