Speed
Speed
Speed is a measure. It is velocity but without the direction.[1][2][3][4]
Finding speed
Speed is the distance an object moves in a given amount of time.[1][2][3] The distance is never negative.[5] If a train takes 1 hour to travel 100 kilometers, it has a speed of 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph). In fact this is the average speed.[3] During this one hour, the train may become slower and faster, it may even drive backwards.[3] The average speed of an object in a certain time is the distance the object traveled divided by the time.[1][3][5] The instantaneous speed is the average speed when the time is very small, almost zero.[3]
Units
There are many units of measurement. Since the 20th century following units were widely used by humans:
- miles per hour (mph),
- kilometers per hour (km/h), and
- meters per second (m/s), which is the SI-unit for speed.
Different units are used for different applications. People controlling planes and ships frequently use Knot (speed).[3] Sometimes a Mach number is used. The strength of a Wind is its speed, sometimes using the Beaufort scale.
Range
The smallest speed is 0 meters per second (0 km/h; 0 mph). A “negative speed” would be in fact a velocity. The biggest speed is the speed of light.[6] You can write bigger speeds, but they are not possible in this universe.
Read also
- Orbital speed
- Speedometer – a thing showing speed
- Speed limit – a law telling people a maximum speed
- Speed of sound
- Wind speed
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "speed". The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (6th ed.). Columbia University Press. January 24, 2017. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "velocity". Encyclopaedia Britannica. November 3, 2022. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
The magnitude of the velocity (i.e., the speed) is the time rate at which the point is moving along its path.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Glenn Elert (2021). "Speed and Velocity". The Physics Hypertextbook. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
- ↑ Kara Rogers (December 7, 2016). "What's the Difference Between Speed and Velocity?". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 David Darling (August 31, 2021). "speed". Encyclopedia of Science. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
- ↑ "The cosmic speed limit: Why can't we travel at light speed?". Science World. July 8, 2015. Archived from the original on December 19, 2022. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
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