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-- Dropping a stone off the edge of a cliff.
-- Flooring the "accelerator" pedal while keeping the wheel straight.
-- The speed of a bottle rocket or a Delta rocket before their fuel is used up or engine is shut down.
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Is increasing acceleration the same as positive acceleration?
No. "Positive acceleration" means increasing speed. The acceleration is usually constantin typical Physics examples and applications.
How is increasing speed acceleration?
By definition acceleration is the change in velocity (speed).
Does acceleration refers to increasing speed decreasing speed or changing direction?
Increasing speed
What is meant by positive acceleration and negative acceleration?
Positive acceleration = speeding up; speed increasing in the direction you're moving.Negative acceleration = slowing down; speed decreasing in the direction you're moving,or speed increasing in the opposite direction.
When is acceleration of an object positive?
When its speed is increasing
What are acceleration examples?
Examples of acceleration are change in speed, change in direction, or both.
How is velocity of zero different from an acceleration of zero?
Velocity basically means how fast you are going. Acceleration means how much your speed is increasing. So if there is zero velocity that means the object is not moving. If there is zero acceleration, that means that the speed is not increasing but there is actual speed and the object is not increasing it's speed what ever that may be.
Compare velocity from acceleration?
Velocity is a constant traveling speed. Acceleration is increasing traveling speed (variation of speed over time)
What are examples of increasing speed?
Increasing speed is acceleration. Some examples include: 1. A car speeding up (accelerating) from a parked position to 30mph. 2. A person speeding up to a walking pace from a sitting position. 3. An airplane speeding up from its runway position to its speed at lift-off.
In science acceleration refers to increasing speed decreasing speed or changing what?
Or Chaning Direction.
What three things can acceleration mean?
Increasing speed, decreasing speed, and change of direction
Can a body have decreasing acceleration but increasing speed?
Of course. The magnitude (size) of acceleration is the rate at which speed is changing. As long as the magnitude of acceleration is more than zero, speed is increasing. If the magnitude of acceleration is decreasing, then speed is growing more slowly, but it's still increasing. That's exactly what's happening to an object falling through air. As it falls faster and faster, the force of air resistance increases. The object's acceleration shrinks, and it's speed increases more slowly. When the force of air resistance is equal to the object's weight, the net force on it is zero, its acceleration is zero, and its speed stops increasing. It's then at 'terminal velocity'.
