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If you get a ticket for speeding, it is based on your average speed or instantaneous speed? Explain

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Answer:

Instantaneous speed

Step-by-step explanation:

Usually the speed measuring guns are used to measure the speed at a certain instant, so the measured speed is instantaneous.

The average speed is determined by the expression final distance minus initial distance divided by time


v_(aver) =(x_(f)- x_(i))/(t)

The instantaneous speed is determined in the same way as the average, but with the exception that the travel displacements are shorter (very close one each other).

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