This is a picture of my cousin and I running around the Vance monument in downtown Asheville, demonstrating the differences between Speed and Velocity. We were both travelling at the same speed, or moving at the same rate. Yet our Velocities were different. Why? You may ask? Well, just let me tell you, Velocity is acceleration in a direction. Therefore, we both may have had the same acceleration, but we were moving on opposite directions, making our velocities different. This is an accurate (albeit strange) portrayal of Speed and Velocity.
I totally love the picture and its cool the way you formulated your response. It makes sense because both your displacements are different and the change in displacement is a huge determiner of the velocity because it is change in displacement divided by change in time that creates the velocity and if any one of those are different the velocity is different so i totally agree with how you positions yourselves in the pictures moving in different direction noting to the viewer already that the displacement is different.
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