Velocity or speed? Instantaneous or average? Keep building your physics vocabulary.

Your notion of velocity is probably similar to its scientific definition. You know that a large displacement in a small amount of time means a large velocity and that velocity has units of …

Acceleration is the name we give to any process where the velocity changes. Since velocity is a speed and a direction, there are only two ways for you to accelerate: change your speed or …

Learn how to find an object’s instantaneous speed or velocity in three ways - by using calculus, by looking at the slope of a given point on a graph of an object’s rate vs. time, or by using …

This equation can be derived by combining two equations for average velocity. Average velocity is defined as displacement divided by the time during which that displacement occurred:

By definition. velocity is rate of change of displacement. Acceleration is rate of change of velocity.

Let's derive the drift velocity formula (v = eEt/m), in terms of relaxation time. Drift velocity is the average velocity with which, the electrons drift in the opposite direction of the field.

Displacement is the theoretical amount traveled. Velocity is the rate in which the object changes its position. First find the displacement, then divide it by the time to get your velocity.

Although speed and velocity are often words used interchangeably, in physics, they are distinct concepts. Velocity (v) is a vector quantity that measures displacement (or change in position, …

You can think of speed as velocity without the direction. They both have the same units, meters per second as a standard unit, or in a more day-to-day life, unit would be miles per hour.