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What is the difference between speed and velocity ?
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What is the difference between speed and velocity ?

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Speed and Velocity are similar with their only real differences being that Speed has to be positive, and Velocity is a vector, which means that it has to have direction and magnitude.

User Michael Shnitzer
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Speed is the distance traveled
time
but velocity is the change in distance
time
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