Instantaneous velocity
Learning objectives
- To distinguish average speed from instantaneous speed.
- To illustrate a famous physical application of the derivative of a function.
Don't confuse mean velocity and instantaneous velocity. Both are related to the derivative (slope) of a distance versus time curve.
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