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What is acceleration?
The rate of change of velocity in a certain amount of time (how quickly you’re speeding up)
How do you find the average acceleration of an object?
a = (v-u) / t
What does the (v-u) in the acceleration equation represent?
The change in velocity, where u is the initial velocity and v is the final velocity (all in m/s)
What is negative acceleration?
Deceleration (if something slows down, the change in velocity is negative)
What are cases of constant acceleration?
Basically anything that’s falling
What is constant/uniform acceleration?
means an object's velocity changes by the same amount every second. This happens when a steady force is applied, like gravity (g), which is roughly 10m/s² near Earth's surface and is equal to the gravitational field strength
What is the equation for constant acceleration?
v2 - u2 = 2 x a x s
What does s represent in the equation for uniform acceleration?
distance (m)
