25 Oct 2021
Problem 14
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Section: Questions
Chapter 2: Describing motion: Kinematics in one dimension
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25 Oct 2021
Given information
It is asked to explain whether an object can have zero acceleration and nonzero velocity at the same time with examples.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
The acceleration is the rate of change of velocity. Whenever there is a change in velocity, the object undergoes an acceleration.
Acceleration vector is defined as
Here is the velocity vector and is the time.
So, whenever the magnitude or the direction of the velocity changes, there is a non-zero value of acceleration corresponding to it.
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