Hello guys, I hope you all are doing great. In today’s tutorial, we will have a look at Difference Between Velocity and Acceleration. There are 2 most important parameter velocity and acceleration related to the motion of different bodies. The main difference between these two parameters is that velocity changes in the position of a body in a specific direction in unit time. While acceleration is the change in velocity in a specific direction per unit time.

In today’s post, we will have a detailed look at different parameters of velocity and acceleration and find differences. So let’s get started with Difference Between Velocity and Acceleration.

Difference Between Velocity and Acceleration

Velocity

• The variation in the position of a body in unit time is called velocity.
• Its measuring formula is meter per second.

• The rate of change in the position of the body with time is called velocity.
• It is equivalent to the body speed feature having direction and movement.
• It mostly used in the science field of kinematics.
• It is a physical term has velocity tan magnitude.
• Its unit is m/s
• The velocity measured between two objects called relative velocity.
• Its dimension is LT⁻¹
• The moving body has zero value of speed
• Change in velocity called acceleration
• Speed measured at any instant of moving object called instantaneous speed
• The product of mass and velocity equal to the momentum.
• Speed is related to the displacement of the body.
• It also known as a change in displacement of body.

What is Speed

• Speed is denoted with V and is the magnitude of variation in the position of any body and it is scalar terms.
• The time duration in which distance covered through body parted in different parts is called average speed.
• The system international unit used for speed is meter per second. In some cases, kilometer per hour is used

Difference between Speed and Velocity

• Speed tells about the motion of an object and the quantity of a moving object while velocity tells about the speed quantity and motion of direction.
• Let us tale an example car moving with speed thirty kilometers per second and its direction os toward south than its speed is given

Tangential Speed

• Tangential speed is caused due to the body moving in the circle.In this case, the direction of motion of object lies at the tangent to the circle so it called tangential speed

Acceleration

• The rate of change of velocity is called acceleration.
• The direction of acceleration is found through the total force acting at the body
• The magnitude of the acceleration is explained through the use of the second law of newton
• Its meauring unit is m/s^2.
• The product of mass and acceleration is equal to the force.
• It is related to the velocity of the body.

What is Uniform Acceleration

• The acceleration in which the velocity of any moving body varies through equal quantity in  given time called uniform acceleration.

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