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Yes. It is accelerating because its velocity is changing. Velocity is a combination of speed and the direction of travel (this combination is called a vector, and it can ce viewed as a line segment representing the speed - so twice as fast is twice as long - pointing in the direction of travel (drawn with an arrow tip on the end of the line segment to show the direction of travel). Any change in this vector is called acceleration. Since the length of the vector on this case is increasing, it's called positive acceleration.

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