Velocity as a vector
What Velocity as a vector means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definitions of Velocity as a vector
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Reference: OCR
A quantity with both a size (speed) and a direction, so a change of direction means a change of velocity.
A quantity that has both a magnitude, which is the speed, and a direction.
Topics that use Velocity as a vector
- Beyond Earth (OCR GCSE)
- Newton's laws (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Absorption and emission of radiation
- Artificial satellites: geostationary and polar orbits
- balanced forces
- changing direction
- Circular motion
- Constant speed with changing direction
- constant velocity
- Cosmic microwave background radiation
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