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In this video, we are going to understand what is speed.
Understanding Speed is the basic concept for learning all types of motion.
Infact the basic measurement of motion is speed.
Please watch this video till the end, so that you grasp this concept completely.
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as Motion.
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How do you go to school?
Do you go by walk or in bicyle.
Lets try to understand the meaning of speed by comparing these two modes of travel.
Speed is nothing but a measure of how fast something is going.
An athlete measures his running speed by using a stop watch.
He runs a fixed distance and measures the time taken.
Based on these two, he calculates his running speed.
Lets take another example.
Lets say your school is located at 1 kilometer from your house.
If you reach your school in 15 minutes, then your speed is 1 kilometer per 15 minutes.
Speed represents how far you can go in a certain amount of time.
If you go with your dad to school in bike, then probably you can reach the school within
5 minutes.
What it means is that speed of bike travel is 1 kilometer per 5 mins.
Speed is generally represented in secs or hours depending on the duration of the time
taken.
Things which cover small distances are generally measured in seconds and things which travel
longer distances are measured in hours.
You would have observed that the speedometer of the bike displays the speed of the bike
in kilometers per hour.
When the speedometer displays 80, it means that the bike is going at 80 kilometers per
hour.
If you go at that speed for next one hour, then you would have covered 80 kilometers.
If we have to put this relation between speed, distance and time, we would get this formulae
Speed = distance / time
What does this formula mean?
When the time is kept constant, if distance increases, speed also increases.
also, When distance is kept constant, if time increases, speed decreases.
Lets undertand the statement when time increases, speed decreases.
You need to go to nearby town which is 100 kms away.
Generally you take 1 hours to reach the town when you go by car.
But this time, you decided to go by bus, the bus took 2 hours to reach.
Here the distance is constant, but the time increased from 1 hour to 2 hours, so what
would happen to the speed, it would decrease.
Lets calculate how much speed decreased.
In case of car, 100 kms covered in 1 hour so speed is 100 kms/hour but in bus case 100
kms covered in 2 hours, so speed is 100 kms/2 hour.
That is 50 kms/hour.
The speed decreased from 100 kms /hour to 50 kms/hour.
Now that you have understood speed, let me see if I can confuse your understanding.
When you travel, the speedometer does not show the arrow at 100 kms throught the travel.
It starts from zero and increases and when you reach the highway, it stabilizes at 120
kms/hour.
When you cross villages in between, and when you take turns you have to reduce the speed
from 120 kms/hour to 30 or 40 kms/hour.
So the speed changes all the time.
When the speed changes throughout your travel, why we say that the speed is 100 kms/hour.
Think for a while before proceeding with the video.
<Pause>....
Now let me introduce you another term, instantaneous speed.
The varying speed at any instant of time during your travel should not be called as speed,
the correct name to call that is instantaneous speed.
After you complete the travel, you find the average speed by calculating the total distance
covered and the total time taken.
What we call as speed is actually the average speed at which you have travelled.
Do you like trains?
Lets travel with train to another city B. The train travels from our city A to another
city B with the speed of 60 kmph and while traveling back from city B to our city A it
travels with the speed of 70 kmph.
Can you say what is the average speed of train for the whole trip?
To calculate speed, I need distance and the total time taken.
But in this question, only two speeds are given.
Lets assume that the distance between two cities is X.
Then total distance is 2X.
Now lets go to time taken, for onward journey, we have speed and distance, lets rearrange
the formula
speed = distance/time
time = distance/speed = X / 60
Similarly for return journey, time = X / 70
So average speed is total distance/ total time taken
= 2X / (x/60 + x/70)
= 2X x 60 x 70 / 130 X
= 65 kms/hour
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That brings up to the end of this video.
Lets quickly recap our understanding of speed.
The distance covered in 1 hour is called as speed.
Even though the SI unit of time is seconds, in real life we use hour when we talk about
speed.
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