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Instantaneous Velocity and Instantaneous Speed
Instantaneous velocity describes how fast an object is moving at different instants of time in a given time interval. It is also defined as average velocity for an infinitely small time interval.
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Here lim is taking operation of taking limit with time tending towards 0 or infinitely small.
dx/dt is differential coefficient – Rate of change of position with respect to time at an instant.
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