Question

The speedometer in every car also has an odometer that records the distance traveled. If the odometer reads zero at the beginning of a trip and 35 km a half hour later, what is the average speed?

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A hungry mosquito sees you resting in a hammock in a 3-meters-per-second breeze. How fast and in what direction should the mosquito fly in order to hover above you for lunch?

The mosquito should fly toward you into the breeze. When above you it should fly at 3 meters per second in order to hover at rest above you.

How can you tell if an object is moving?

You can calculate the speed of an object by dividing the distance covered by time.

speed

distance over time

The speed at any instant is called the

instantaneous speed