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Yes. This is exactly the case when an object is thrown on the surface of the Earth. Consider an (American) football thrown in the air. This ball has the force of gravity accelerating it downward, but there is no force acting on it horizontally, thus there is no acceleration horizontally. As a result, since acceleration is the rate of change in velocity, the velocity in the vertical direction is changing, whereas the velocity in the horizontal direction is not.

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Yes. In fact, that's a quite common situation when something drops out of an airplane, for example - assuming air resistance can be neglected. In this case, the horizontal component doesn't change (there is no force that pulls the object sideways), but the vertical component does change (since gravity pulls the object downwards).

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Acceleration is defined as The rate of change of Velocity.

Which means that for acceleration there must be Variable Velocity/ Speed. and not uniform

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a projectile

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What is difference between an object moving with uniform acceleration and an object moving with a constant velocity?

A motion with a constant speed will always be moving the same speed A motion with a constant acceleration will constantly be gaining speed, and does not remain moving at the same speed.


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If body is moving in a circle with uniform or constant speed its acceleration will be uniform as velocity i.e. to say direction is changing at every point.


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Can a particle moving with uniform speed along a curved path have acceleration?

Yes, due to its change in direction of motion.


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When the direction changes. A simple case is an object moving in a circle, at constant speed.


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