What is the difference between speed and velocity?

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What is the difference between speed and velocity?..

Answer / vinay

speed is the ratio between distance and time.. wheres
velocity is the ration between displacement and time

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What is the difference between speed and velocity?..

Answer / kannan r c

SPEED IS A SCALAR QUANTITY, WHILE VELOCITY IS A VECTOR
QUANTITY.

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What is the difference between speed and velocity?..

Answer / karthick

speed doesnot have direction whereas velocity has
direction.speed is a scalar quantity it contains only
magnitude but velocity contains both velocity and magnitude

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What is the difference between speed and velocity?..

Answer / dinesh rana

Speed=distance/
TIME AND
Velocity=displacement/
time

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What is the difference between speed and velocity?..

Answer / ankur sahu

speed is the ratio b/w distance per unit time whereas
velocity is the rate of change of speed.

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What is the difference between speed and velocity?..

Answer / hameedwahab

In General:
Speed: It can either be a Angular or Linear movement per unit time.

Velocity: It is a Linear movement per unit time.

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