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Under what condition is the magnitude of the average velocity of a particle moving in onbe dimension smaller than the average speed over same time interval?

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If the particle moves along a line out changing the direction the magnitude of average velocity and average speed are the same.When change in the direction occurs displacement would be smaller than the distance ,hence average velocity would be smaller than the average speed .
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