Distance and Speed
Mr. Saleem and Mr. Kareem started their journey from Lahore to Islamabad (400 km). Mr. Saleem boards a train from Lahore. He travels for 4 hours and reaches Islamabad. On the other hand, Mr. Kareem boards a bus. But the bus reaches only Jhelum in 4 hours. • Which covers more distance in the same time, the train or the bus • Which is moving faster? From the above example we can know more about motion by relating the distance covered by the object with the time taken to cover this distance. • Can you define a new term that is called speed of the moving object? • Can you find the speed of train in the above example?