If you looked out at the Sun across the 93 million miles of space that separate our world from our nearest star, the light you're seeing isn't from the Sun as it is right now, but rather as it was ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The term ‘instantaneous speed’ that appears explicitly in the works of famous Oxford fourteenth-century natural philosophers, William ...

Just how fast can the fastest human run? This adapted book excerpt from Infinite Powers reveals how calculus helps us investigate the nature of motion and change. “Art,” said Pablo Picasso, “is a lie ...

Average speed is measured in metres per second \(m\, s^{-1}\). Instantaneous speed is the speed of an object at a particular moment in time. Instantaneous speed is measured in metres per second \(m\, ...