During a typical trip to school, your car will undergo a series of changes in
its speed. If you were to inspect the speedometer readings at regular intervals,
you would notice that it changes often. The speedometer of a car reveals
information about the instantaneous speed of your car. It shows your speed at a
particular instant in time.
The instantaneous speed of an object is not to be confused with the average
speed. Average speed is a measure of the distance traveled
in a given period of time; it is sometimes referred to as the distance
per time ratio. Suppose that during your trip to school, you traveled a
distance of 5 miles and the trip lasted 0.2 hours (12 minutes). The average
speed of your car could be determined as
On the average, your car was moving with a speed of 25
miles per hour. During your trip, there may have been times that you were
stopped and other times that your speedometer was reading 50 miles per hour.
Yet, on average, you were moving with a speed of 25 miles per hour
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