Swimmer Eric Shanteau placed third in the 200-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic trials with a time of 2:10.05. This gives him an average speed of 1.538 m/s. Of course, this wasn’t his speed the ...
A distance-time graph shows how the distance travelled by an object changes over time and can be used to calculate the speed of the object. A sloping line on a distance-time graph shows that the ...