Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Physics 11: Thanks for the link!

So this is a link that sort of demonstrates what we were trying to understand today about the difference between average and instantaneous velocities. There's a lot of math stuff that you need not worry about, just scroll down and take a look at the animated graph (it's the third graph with the moving green line).

As the two points move closer together you move towards a more accurate value for the instantaneous velocity.

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