how do you calculate the average rate of speed
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Average speed is the total distance traveled for the object in question divided by the total elapsed time taken to travel the distance, the total period of time. The average speed formula is:
Average speed = total distance / total el aps e d time
Instantaneous Speed
Average speed takes into account the entirety of an event, such as a car accelerating from a stop, speeding up, traveling for a while, then slowing at a yellow light, and finally stopping.
A car travels at different speeds. At any given moment, the car is not traveling at 55
It might be 0 mph, then 7 mph in another instant, then 53 mph, then 61 mph, and finally 3 mph before returning to 0 mph.
To simplify measurements and make progress on a physics or mathematics problem, you take the average speed of all the discrete events, saying the car traveled .
How To Calculate Average Speed
To calculate the average speed of an object, you must know the total distance an object travels and the total elapsed time of its whole journey.
The distance/speed/time triangle is handy for calculating this and two other scalar quantities (distance and time)