Question

4.
What is the numerical ratio of average velocity to average speed of an object moving along a straight
line path?

Answer 1

Answer:

1:1

Explanation:

The body is moving along a straight-line path. (Assumption: Displacement is always increasing)

This means that its distance and displacement are going to be the same.

As a result, speed and velocity are also the same.

So, the required ratio is 1:1

(There is one thing to be considered.

If the body, while moving on its path, stops' and moves in the backward direction, then displacement will be less than the distance traveled. In this case, the ratio will be less than 1)