24-509: [REDACTED] Look up celerity or celeritas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Celerity , or celeritas (Latin), may refer to: Speed , quickness Science and technology [ edit ] Speed of light , celeritas Celerity BBS , a computer bulletin board system popular in the 1990s Celerity Computing Inc., defunct San Diego, California vendor Celerity IT ,
48-413: A 4-hour trip, the distance covered is found to be 320 kilometres. Expressed in graphical language, the slope of a tangent line at any point of a distance-time graph is the instantaneous speed at this point, while the slope of a chord line of the same graph is the average speed during the time interval covered by the chord. Average speed of an object is Vav = s÷t Speed denotes only how fast an object
72-600: A Dutch football club in Rotterdam, known as Celeritas 1909–1912 Celeritas, a Dutch football club in Kampen, active in 1893; see Jasper Warner § Local sports Celeritas, a Dutch football club in Rotterdam, active in 1901; see Belgium vs Netherlands Cups § History See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Celerity All pages with titles containing Celerity Celery Celebrity Celer (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
96-499: A Dutch football club in Rotterdam, known as Celeritas 1909–1912 Celeritas, a Dutch football club in Kampen, active in 1893; see Jasper Warner § Local sports Celeritas, a Dutch football club in Rotterdam, active in 1901; see Belgium vs Netherlands Cups § History See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Celerity All pages with titles containing Celerity Celery Celebrity Celer (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
120-434: A Virginia-based web development consulting group Phase velocity , speed of propagation of a wave Proper velocity , an alternative way of measuring motion in relativity Transport [ edit ] USS Celeritas (SP-665) , a United States Navy patrol vessel Mirage Celerity , an American two-seat cabin monoplane Celerity (carriage) Sport [ edit ] FC Celeritas Straßburg Feyenoord ,
144-573: A computer bulletin board system popular in the 1990s Celerity Computing Inc., defunct San Diego, California vendor Celerity IT , a Virginia-based web development consulting group Phase velocity , speed of propagation of a wave Proper velocity , an alternative way of measuring motion in relativity Transport [ edit ] USS Celeritas (SP-665) , a United States Navy patrol vessel Mirage Celerity , an American two-seat cabin monoplane Celerity (carriage) Sport [ edit ] FC Celeritas Straßburg Feyenoord ,
168-446: A full hour, it would travel 50 km. If the vehicle continued at that speed for half an hour, it would cover half that distance (25 km). If it continued for only one minute, it would cover about 833 m. In mathematical terms, the instantaneous speed v {\displaystyle v} is defined as the magnitude of the instantaneous velocity v {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {v}}} , that is,
192-417: A straight line), this can be simplified to v = s / t {\displaystyle v=s/t} . The average speed over a finite time interval is the total distance travelled divided by the time duration. Different from instantaneous speed, average speed is defined as the total distance covered divided by the time interval. For example, if a distance of 80 kilometres is driven in 1 hour,
216-413: A street at 50 km/h, slow to 0 km/h, and then reach 30 km/h). Speed at some instant, or assumed constant during a very short period of time, is called instantaneous speed . By looking at a speedometer , one can read the instantaneous speed of a car at any instant. A car travelling at 50 km/h generally goes for less than one hour at a constant speed, but if it did go at that speed for
240-454: Is v = d t , {\displaystyle v={\frac {d}{t}},} where v {\displaystyle v} is speed, d {\displaystyle d} is distance, and t {\displaystyle t} is time. A cyclist who covers 30 metres in a time of 2 seconds, for example, has a speed of 15 metres per second. Objects in motion often have variations in speed (a car might travel along
264-436: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages celerity [REDACTED] Look up celerity or celeritas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Celerity , or celeritas (Latin), may refer to: Speed , quickness Science and technology [ edit ] Speed of light , celeritas Celerity BBS ,
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#1732880174674288-419: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Speed In kinematics , the speed (commonly referred to as v ) of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a non-negative scalar quantity. The average speed of an object in an interval of time
312-460: Is moving, whereas velocity describes both how fast and in which direction the object is moving. If a car is said to travel at 60 km/h, its speed has been specified. However, if the car is said to move at 60 km/h to the north, its velocity has now been specified. The big difference can be discerned when considering movement around a circle . When something moves in a circular path and returns to its starting point, its average velocity
336-424: Is the distance travelled by the object divided by the duration of the interval; the instantaneous speed is the limit of the average speed as the duration of the time interval approaches zero. Speed is the magnitude of velocity (a vector), which indicates additionally the direction of motion. Speed has the dimensions of distance divided by time. The SI unit of speed is the metre per second (m/s), but
360-400: Is the length of the path (also known as the distance) travelled until time t {\displaystyle t} , the speed equals the time derivative of s {\displaystyle s} : v = d s d t . {\displaystyle v={\frac {ds}{dt}}.} In the special case where the velocity is constant (that is, constant speed in
384-420: Is zero, but its average speed is found by dividing the circumference of the circle by the time taken to move around the circle. This is because the average velocity is calculated by considering only the displacement between the starting and end points, whereas the average speed considers only the total distance travelled. Units of speed include: (* = approximate values) According to Jean Piaget ,
408-473: The derivative of the position r {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {r}}} with respect to time : v = | v | = | r ˙ | = | d r d t | . {\displaystyle v=\left|{\boldsymbol {v}}\right|=\left|{\dot {\boldsymbol {r}}}\right|=\left|{\frac {d{\boldsymbol {r}}}{dt}}\right|\,.} If s {\displaystyle s}
432-423: The average speed is 80 kilometres per hour. Likewise, if 320 kilometres are travelled in 4 hours, the average speed is also 80 kilometres per hour. When a distance in kilometres (km) is divided by a time in hours (h), the result is in kilometres per hour (km/h). Average speed does not describe the speed variations that may have taken place during shorter time intervals (as it is the entire distance covered divided by
456-434: The intuition for the notion of speed in humans precedes that of duration, and is based on the notion of outdistancing. Piaget studied this subject inspired by a question asked to him in 1928 by Albert Einstein : "In what order do children acquire the concepts of time and speed?" Children's early concept of speed is based on "overtaking", taking only temporal and spatial orders into consideration, specifically: "A moving object
480-561: The most common unit of speed in everyday usage is the kilometre per hour (km/h) or, in the US and the UK, miles per hour (mph). For air and marine travel, the knot is commonly used. The fastest possible speed at which energy or information can travel, according to special relativity , is the speed of light in vacuum c = 299 792 458 metres per second (approximately 1 079 000 000 km/h or 671 000 000 mph ). Matter cannot quite reach
504-413: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Celerity . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celerity&oldid=1168295567 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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552-401: The speed of light, as this would require an infinite amount of energy. In relativity physics, the concept of rapidity replaces the classical idea of speed. Italian physicist Galileo Galilei is usually credited with being the first to measure speed by considering the distance covered and the time it takes. Galileo defined speed as the distance covered per unit of time. In equation form, that
576-432: The total time of travel), and so average speed is often quite different from a value of instantaneous speed. If the average speed and the time of travel are known, the distance travelled can be calculated by rearranging the definition to d = v ¯ t . {\displaystyle d={\boldsymbol {\bar {v}}}t\,.} Using this equation for an average speed of 80 kilometres per hour on
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