Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: PapaBear3625
"Velocity involves speed AND direction."

Okay, just looked up velocity and vector. I learned way back in school that direction was trajectory. Velocity is speed. The physics definition is enlightening. Still, that is only 2 dimensions. Where is the 3rd? BTW, that is not what most people believe about velocity and trajectory. Guess we're all behind the definitions.

56 posted on 03/22/2021 11:30:41 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1776. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies ]


To: A Navy Vet

A 3 dimensional velocity vector would be (speed in x direction, speed in y direction, speed in z direction), if the 3 spatial dimensions are (x,y,z).

More mathematically, instead of speed in x direction, you would say change of location in the x direction with respect to time.

So, velocity would be (dx/dt, dy/dt, dz/dt), where d essentially means ‘change in’.


61 posted on 03/22/2021 12:36:36 PM PDT by EvilOverlord (Socialism makes workers into slaves and couch potatoes into kings)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson