Sea World Physics Sea World Physics Pre-Visit Activities 1. Velocity Velocity is a vector quantity describing motion that includes both magnitude and direction. The magnitude or size of the velocity is called speed.
Speed describes how fast an object is moving.
Texas Splashdown maximum speed 2. Mark two points in a hallway, gym, outdoors, or classroom that are about five meters apart with chairs, tape on the floor or any visible objects. Measure the distance between these markers to the nearest centimeter. Five students with stopwatches should time the walker between the two points. If you don't have five stopwatches, then use as many as you can.