How can velocity change even if speed stays the same

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Marlee Horne

Physics

11 November, 16:43

How can velocity change even if speed stays the same

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Sonia Vang · Answer 1

A car traveling in a straight line at a constant speed has a constant velocity, but if the car turns around a curve in the road then the velocity changes, even if the speed stays the same. Or a car that is changing in speed, even if it continues in the same direction, has a changing velocity.

Duncan Kidd · Answer 2

"Velocity" is made of the speed and the direction of motion. So if the direction changes, the velocity changes, even if the speed stays the same.

Examples:

- - an object traveling in any closed path, like a roulette ball, or an orbiting satellite;

- - a car turning a corner at a constant speed;