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Grade 6General Physics

what do you mean by linear acceleration

Profile image of ujjwal raj
12 Years agoGrade 6
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Profile image of Apoorva Arora
12 Years ago
Linear acceleration is the rate of change in velocity over a given time period of an object moving in one direction. This is a fairly basic concept in physics and is part of classical mechanics--the specific field in physics that deals with the laws of motion of non-atomic objects (the movement and behavior of atomic particles is described in quantum mechanics). The simplest everyday example of linear acceleration is a car that is continuously speeding up along a straight road.
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