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Does the speedometer of a car read average speed or instantaneous speed? and how do we know?

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The speedometer of a car shows its instantaneous speed (as we understand it) and not the average speed. Technically, instantaneous speed is also average speed, but calculated over a very, very small time period. Speed is nothing but a ratio of distance traveled and time taken.

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