Question

Feest. Fysics and motion

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Select the correct answer
You travel in a circle, whose circumference is 8 kilometers, at an average speed of 8 kilometers/hour. If you stop at the same point you started
from, what is your average velocity?
A
0 kilometers/hour
B.
2 kilometers/hour
4 kilometers/hour
D
8 kilometers/hour
E.
16 kilometers/hour
Rese

Answer 1

Velocity depends on the straight-line distance between your start-point and your end-point, regardless of what route you follow to get there.

If you stop at the same point where you started, then that distance is zero, no matter how far you drove before you returned to your start-point.

So the average velocity around any "CLOSED" path is zero. (A)