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Velocity & Speed

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frog1944:
Hi,

If a question asks me to find the speed of a particle, should I take this as its speed or velocity? Or if they want velocity will they say velocity? This may sound like a silly question, but numerous times I've seen a question ask for speed (which is always positive) when in fact they mean velocity.

Thanks

RuiAce:


--- Quote from: frog1944 on May 27, 2017, 10:17:47 am ---Hi,

If a question asks me to find the speed of a particle, should I take this as its speed or velocity? Or if they want velocity will they say velocity? This may sound like a silly question, but numerous times I've seen a question ask for speed (which is always positive) when in fact they mean velocity.

Thanks

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That means the question was written wrong.

In the HSC they will never create disambiguity between those terms.

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