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Yes, objects can accelerate at a rate greater than "g". Most objects, when falling in the absense of air resisitance, accelerate at a uniform rate of -9.81 m/s^2 (this is under ideal conditions on Earth). Air resistance tends to decrease that acceleration. The classic example of greater than "g" acceleration is a bungee jumper.

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What would the graph look like on a position verse time plot with constant acceleration?

If the constant acceleration is positive, the graph would be an exponential (x2) graph. If there is constant acceleration, then velocity is always increasing, making the position change at an ever increasing rate.


Can acceleration ever be negative?

Acceleration is negative when the object is moving in the opposite direction. on a graph the line would be in the negative quadrant.


If an object is accelerating can the net force acting on it ever be zero?

No, if an object is accelerating, there must be a net force acting on it in the direction of the acceleration. Newton's second law states that the net force on an object is directly proportional to its acceleration, so a non-zero net force is necessary for acceleration.


What is meant by centripetal acceleration is perpendicular to velocity?

As an object goes round in a circular path, then its velocity will along the tangent at that instant. But centripetal acceleration is normal to that tangent and so along the radius of curvature. As acceleration is perpendicular to the velocity, the direction aspect is ever changing and so the object goes round the circular path.


When a stone is thrown upward at an angle what happens to the vertical component of its velocity as it rises and as it falls?

The vertical component of its velocity increases at the rate of 9.8 meters (32.2 feet) per second downward every second. Without involving numbers, simply the vertical component will first be upward at what ever velocity it is when split from the horizontal velocity, then (after reaching the peak of its height at which velocity is zero) it will be a downward vector that, yes, will increase with acceleration due to gravity (which is where the 9.8 meters per second squared came from)

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What would the graph look like on a position verse time plot with constant acceleration?

If the constant acceleration is positive, the graph would be an exponential (x2) graph. If there is constant acceleration, then velocity is always increasing, making the position change at an ever increasing rate.


What minimum downward force needed to lift the 120 Newtons weight?

No matter how much force you exert downward, it shall avail you naught. No downward force acting directly on the object can ever succeed in lifting it.


Does earth have more acceleration than a car?

No and yes. Acceleration is the action of Speeding up while speed is Distance over time. Speed yes. Acceleration. No one would ever know


Does anything that is ever alive ever move?

probs not


Can acceleration ever be negative?

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How do you calculate acceleration from distance and time?

Acceleration= Distance/time (distance divided by time) That's the dumbest answer I've ever heard.. Acceleration = Final Velocity - Initial Velocity/Time Velocity = Displacement/Time So you can't calculate acceleration from distance and time, you can only do velocity.


Has Joe Jonas ever stole anything?

no nothing ever in his life


Has bigfoot ever smashed anything?

no


Can you ever have to little?

no you can do anything you put in to it


Does a bubble ever engulf anything?

no


Is 42.53 greater than or less than 42.35?

42.53 is greater than 42.35 because you look at the number to the right of the decimal, and which ever is greater, is the answer


Can the component of a vector ever be greater than the magnitude of the vector?

No.