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Grade 9Mechanics

What is difference between Velocity and Speed?

Profile image of Waqas Ahmed
15 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Waqas Ahmed
15 Years ago

Velocity is Vector quantity while speed is a scalar quantity. 

Profile image of vikas askiitian expert
15 Years ago

speed is distance per unit time whearas velocity is displacement per unit time....

speed is scalar quantity and has no direction but velocity is vector and has direction...

eg...

 if a body is performing uniform circular motion of radius R then after complete rotation particle comes to the same point so distance becomes 2pieR but displacement becomes 0..

 so speed = 2pieR/T and velocity =0

from dis it can be said that velocity may be 0 but speed can never be 0...