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Grade 9Mechanics

Can you travel with a constant speed and also be accelerating?

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6 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Arun
6 Years ago
Acceleration is a change in velocity, by definition (that is the by the definition that is assigned by physicists). Therefore, you cannot accelerate and travel at a constant velocity. However, velocity (since it is a vector) has a magnitude, which is the speed, and a direction.