Physics of Everyday Phenomena
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781259894008
Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 2, Problem 8CQ
The highway patrol sometimes uses radar guns to identify possible speeders and at other times uses associates in airplanes who note the time taken for a car to pass between two marks some distance apart on the highway. What does each of these methods measure, average speed or instantaneous speed? Can you think of situations in which either one of these methods might unfairly penalize a driver? Explain.
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