Question

Philip is a football player who runs a pass route that takes a right angle bend as shown in the diagram below. Which do you think will have the greater magnitude; the average speed or the average velocity? explain why

Answer 1

Average velocity

Explanation:

The average speed is only different from average velocity because it has direction.

The average speed will be calculated with the hypotenuse A_C, but average velocity will be calculated with the two directions AB_BC.