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Velocity is the ratio of two fundamental physical quantities: distance and time, and is
computed as the distance an object moves divided by the time in which it moves. In
SI units distance is measured in meters, and time in seconds. Therefore in SI units
velocity is measured in meters/sec. However velocity can be measured in any units
of distance per time: miles/hour, inches/year, micrometers/decade. As long as you
have a unit of distance in the numerator and a unit of time in the denominator you
have an acceptable unit for velocity.
So far, to this point, what you have is the sizeof the velocity, also called "speed".
To make a velocity out of a speed, you must indicate the direction of the speed.
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∙ 11y ago
Wiki User
∙ 11y agoThe size of velocity is any unit of speed ... (a distance) divided by (a time) ...
such as feet per second, or kilometers per hour.
But that only gives you a speed. In order to make a velocity, you also have to
indicate what direction the speed is in.
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A measure of how quickly something travels a distance in a given unit of time?
Velocity is distance per unit time, it is measured in meter per second. (m/s)
If velocity is measured in kilometers per hour and time is measured in hours the unit of acceleration is?
Kilometers/hour2. Note that for this kind of calculation, it is much more common to measure distances in meters, time in seconds, velocity in meters/second, and acceleration in meters/second2.
What is velocity-time relation?
Velocity is measured as distanced traveled over time
Volume is measured in what unit?
Nolume is measured in unit meter cubed, m3.
What unit is the middle ordinate measured in?
The measurement unit depends on the characteristic that is being measured.
Is air velocity measured in cubic feet?
No, the standard unit (SI unit) for any velocity is ms-1
What unit is air velocity measured in?
Ft/min
What unit is waves velocity measured in?
Meters per second
Suppose velocity is measured kmhr and time is measured in hourswhat is that unit of acceleration?
If velocity is km/hr and time is in hours then acceleration will be in km/hr2
What the velocity uint?
In SI unit, velocity is measured in meters per second. This unit doesn't have a special name.The formular is:m/sPrincewill Esara
What is final velocity measured in?
the SI unit would be meter/second (m/s)
Velocity is expressed in what type of unit?
Usually meters/second, but it could be miles per hour or kilometers per hour. Essentially velocity is speed and is measured in unit distance per unit time.
What is the metric unit that a wave's velocity is measued in?
The speed of anything is measured in metres per second. The difference between speed and velocity is that velocity is a vector, that is it has direction and well as magnitude. So velocity would be measured in metres per second in a certain direction.
What is the measured in velocity in the metric system?
Velocity is a vector, which means it has both size and direction. The size of a velocity is its speed, speed is measured in metres per second, faster speeds are measured in kilometres per hour. ; but the official base unit is metres per second.
Velocity and speed are alike because?
Both are measured in meters/second, or some similar unit of distance/time.
What is difference between discharge velocity and seepage velocity?
discharge velocity is the quantity of flow that flows through a unit cross sectional area of the soil in a unit time discharge velocity is used to determine the quantity of flow through soil seepage velocity the actual rate of movement of the water as measured with dye tracer for instance, is the seepage velocity
What is the unit for change in velocity?
In SI units, changes in velocity, or in other words the acceleration, gets measured in meters per second per second, or m/s^2.
