Instantaneous Speed
Practice finding the instantaneous velocity or speed from a position vs.
Instantaneous speed. During a typical trip to school your car will undergo a series of changes in its speed. If you were to inspect the speedometer. Different from instantaneous speed average speed is defined as the total distance covered divided by the time interval. Instantaneous speed and velocity looks at really small displacements over really small periods of time.
In this lesson well learn about instantaneous speed the difference between it and average speed and the formulas for calculating both of them. You can calculate the instantaneous speed of an object using limits. Say that you and your calculus loving cat are hanging out one day and you decide to drop a ball. You might think of the instantaneous speed as the speed that the speedometer reads at any given instant in time and the average speed as the average of all the.