Editing Talk:Speed (section)

==speed ==
Speed is the essence of things. Such a common expression. 

It all started with my having to help my daughter write an article on "Slow down, you are moving too fast". I have read a book by an American Author called James Gleick - not sure if I got the name correct. He wrote a book called Speed. He is also the author of a book called "Chaos". I am looking for this book. Wonder if anyone can let me know the correct name of the author.

How comes speed and acceleration have no direction _ They are vectors and definitely they have directions.

If you want to know anything about motin or otherwise just speak to a West Bromwich Fan


Speed isn't a vector, it's scalar. Velocity is a vector (speed+direction). And acceleration has direction only indirectly.. you can accelerate by either speeding up (forwards) or slowing down (backwards), though which direction you are moving doesn't matter, you're either slowing up or you're slowing down. And who on Earth is West Bromwich... >_< [[User:Angelic Wraith|Dan]] 00:08, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


hey can someone tell me the difference of speed and velocity >.<  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/112.202.40.128|112.202.40.128]] ([[User talk:112.202.40.128|talk]]) 10:45, 2 December 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

:Speed is a scalar quantity, it only has magnitude. Velocity is a vector quantity it has a magnitude and direction, so it can be negative unlike speed. [[User:Rawsar6|Rawsar6]] ([[User talk:Rawsar6|talk]]) 22:19, 21 January 2024 (UTC)