{"id":9363,"date":"2019-05-22T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/velocity\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:08","slug":"velocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/velocity\/","title":{"rendered":"Velocity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linear or tangential velocity is the instantaneous or average rate of change of position or displacement of a rigid body. It is speed of a body in a specified direction measured in meters per second (ms-1). &nbsp;Angular velocity is the rate at which a rigid body or point rotates around a fixed axis, which is measured in degrees, revolutions per unit time or radians per second.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"acceleration\">Acceleration<\/a>, <a href=\"isotonic_contraction\">Isotonic contraction<\/a>, <a href=\"kinematics\">Kinematics<\/a>, <a href=\"moment_of_inertia_-i-\">Moment of inertia (I)<\/a>, <a href=\"muscle_tone_-or_power-\">Muscle tone (or power)<\/a>, <a href=\"pulsatility_index_-pi-\">Pulsatility index (PI)<\/a>, <a href=\"radian\">Radian<\/a>, <a href=\"resultant\">Resultant<\/a>, <a href=\"vector\">Vector<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linear or tangential velocity is the instantaneous or average rate of change of position or displacement of a rigid body. It is speed of a body in a specified direction measured in meters per second (ms-1). &nbsp;Angular velocity is the rate at which a rigid body or point rotates around a fixed axis, which is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/velocity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Velocity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}