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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Acceleration is a vector quantity that is defined as the rate at which an object changes its velocity. An object is accelerating if it is changing its velocity.

A change in direction is a change in velocity

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It changes the direction of the velocity vector, but not the magnitude.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which is an example of acceleration.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile me noob in physics:-

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