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2 objects at constant speed?

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Say two objects were traveling with constant speed. The second object is traveling with greater speed than the first. Describe two different ways in which the faster object would behave differently than the slower one. You may not use words relating to speed (e.g. faster, slower, quickly, velocity, etc.) in your description. What would it mean if the second object were going twice as fast? What if it were 6 times as fast?

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  1. The faster one will be twice the 1st object


  2. There are different ways in which you can describe the difference in speeds.

    One way can be: The distance traveled by faster object in one second is twice that of the other. If an object travels 2mts in one second and the other object travels 4mts in the same time, the speed of the second object is said to be faster than that of the first.

    Also, as time passes, the distance between the two objects will uniformly increase. In the above example, after 3secs, the distance between them will be (4-2) x 3=6mts. It also means that the faster object has a speed, twice that of the first. If the ratio of the speeds of the faster object to that of the slower one is 6, then the faster object has a speed 6 times that of the first.

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