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Can you site an example in which the acceleration of a body is opposite in direction to its velocity?
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Oscillation of a simple pendulum.
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Can you cite an example in which the acceleration of a boby is opposite in direction to it's velocity?
Anytime an object is slowing down, its acceleration is in the opposite direction to its velocity.
Can velocity and acceleration point in opposite direction?
Yes, velocity and acceleration can point in the opposite direction to each other. This is because neither one depends on the other. When velocity and acceleration are opposite each other this results in slowing down, for example when you hit the break on your car.
Changing direction is an example of a kind of?
Acceleration
What is the example where acceleration is against the direction of motion?
When acceleration is opposite to (against) the direction of motion, the magnitude of the velocity decreases, meaning that the object slows down. An example is the application of the brakes to slow or stop a car. During the time that the pressure remains on the brake pedal, the car's acceleration is negative ... meaning opposite to the direction of motion ... and the car's speed is decreasing.
What is the example where Acceleration against the direction of motion?
When acceleration is opposite to (against) the direction of motion, the magnitude of the velocity decreases, meaning that the object slows down. An example is the application of the brakes to slow or stop a car. During the time that the pressure remains on the brake pedal, the car's acceleration is negative ... meaning opposite to the direction of motion ... and the car's speed is decreasing.
Can you cite an example in which the acceleration of a boby is opposite in direction to it's velocity?
Anytime an object is slowing down, its acceleration is in the opposite direction to its velocity.
Can velocity and acceleration point in opposite direction?
Yes, velocity and acceleration can point in the opposite direction to each other. This is because neither one depends on the other. When velocity and acceleration are opposite each other this results in slowing down, for example when you hit the break on your car.
Is it possible of a body to have its velocity and acceleration pointing in opposite direction plot a velocity-time graph if yes?
Yes, it is possible. For example, if you through an object up, its velocity would initially be in the "up" direction, but its acceleration would be in the "down" direction.
Changing direction is an example of a kind of?
Acceleration
What is the example where acceleration is against the direction of motion?
When acceleration is opposite to (against) the direction of motion, the magnitude of the velocity decreases, meaning that the object slows down. An example is the application of the brakes to slow or stop a car. During the time that the pressure remains on the brake pedal, the car's acceleration is negative ... meaning opposite to the direction of motion ... and the car's speed is decreasing.
What is the example where Acceleration against the direction of motion?
When acceleration is opposite to (against) the direction of motion, the magnitude of the velocity decreases, meaning that the object slows down. An example is the application of the brakes to slow or stop a car. During the time that the pressure remains on the brake pedal, the car's acceleration is negative ... meaning opposite to the direction of motion ... and the car's speed is decreasing.
Is it possible that the velocity of an object be in direction other than the direction of acceleration?
Yes. For example, if you throw a ball straight up in the air, it has a positive initial velocity, but the acceleration due to gravity is in the other direction. From your perspective, until the point when it starts coming back down it will be "decelerating" but really that's just acceleration in the opposite direction of the velocity.
Give an example in which velocity is zero yet acceleration is not zero?
Velocity is directional, so if something is accelerating in the opposite direction from the one it is moving it, there will come a point where it has 0 velocity but still has accelerating. If you throw a ball at the ground and it bounces, for example.
Is a person running in a circular track at 7mph an example of constant velocity at zero acceleration and if so why?
No. The velocity and acceleration are not zero because the direction is changing, thus the velocity and acceleration is changing.
Velocity and acceleration are vectors because?
Both velocity and acceleration of vectors because their magnitude is dependent on their direction. For example a velocity of 6 ft/s is different from a velocity of -6ft/s because they are in opposite directions. Like wise, an acceleration of 9.8 ft/s^2 indicates an increase in velocity while -9.8 ft/s^2 indicates a decrease in velocity.
Can a moving body have velocity and acceleration in opposite directions explain with in example?
Of course. A car with brakes applied and slowing down has forward velocity and rearward acceleration.
When velocity is increasing can acceleration remains constant?
Acceleration is any change in velocity. Velocity is made up of a magnitude (the speed), and a direction. Velocity can change if the speed increases, if it decreases, or if the direction changes. For example, when a car goes around a curve, you feel the force of the acceleration.
