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What is the difference between the velocity and the speed of an object?
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What is the difference between the velocity and the speed of an object?

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Answer : speed is just how fast something is going , but velocity is how fast an object is going in one direction.

Explanation: speed = how fast velocity = how fast in that direction.

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Speed is the distance traveled by an object where as, velocity is distance traveled by an object per unit time in a particular direction. Speed is a scalar quantity where as velocity is a vector quantity.
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