There and Back
You and a friend decide to drive to Raleigh, NC on Saturday
over Martin Luther King weekend to go to a concert with some friends who live
there. You figure you have to reach the vicinity of Raleigh by 6 PM in order
to meet your friends for dinner before the concert.
- It's 600 miles from downtown Orlando to downtown Raleigh.
You'd like to stop for lunch and gas bout noon. What does your average velocity
need to be?
- It's almost all highway driving from here to Raleigh. If
you keep your speed approximately constant, what speed should your speedometer
read while you are driving?
- After you return to Orlando, what is your displacement
from the time you left to go to Raleigh? What is the total distance traveled?
What is your average speed and velocity?