A body moving in a straight line can have a constant velocity with varying speed.

True

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False

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Solution

The correct option is B False
Speed is a scalar quantity and is simply how fast you are traveling. While velocity is a vector quantity. Velocity has magnitude as well as direction. The magnitude of the velocity gives us the speed of the object.

Hence, a body moving in a straight line cannot have a constant velocity with varying speeds.
So, the given statement is False.

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Mark the correct statement(s)
(1) If speed of a body is varying, its velocity must be varying and it must have non-zero acceleration.

(2) If velocity of a body is varying, its speed must be varying.

(3) A body moving with varying velocity may have constant speed.

(4) A body moving with varying speed may have constant velocity, if its direction of motion remains constant.

A

10 {m s}^{- 1}

B

A

10 {m s}^{- 1}

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