Let’s Play ‘What the ?’ This Week: Rate of Speed
There are a bunch of physics terms that get mangled by the press, and “rate of speed” is one of them. Turns out that Physics and Physicists blogged about it a week or so ago.
But I’ll add an “I concur” to it. Speed is dv/dt, or the rate of change of distance, which makes the mention of “rate” superfluous at best, and flat-out wrong at worst.
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