• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      3 days ago

      My dude, velocity is a vector, if you accelerate a body in a perpendicular direction to its velocity, its velocity will change direction, but not magnitude.

      Grab a yoyo, start spinning it around. You are constantly accelerating it towards your hand. If you stopped and let it loose, it would move in a straight line and break the window and mom would be sad.

      No acceleration means constant speed in a straight line. If it does not go with constant speed in a straight line, it’s being accelerated.

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        2 days ago

        Doubt it, I’m going to go out on a limb and say either you didn’t take university physics or you weren’t paying attention, because like the other commenters said this isn’t even university-level physics knowledge, it’s highschool.

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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        3 days ago

        Yes he was. You should ask for your money back. I don’t know how you’d complete even intro physics getting this wrong, as the formulas all depend on it.

        This is like high school physics - change in direction is a change in acceleration.

        Even better, you can experience this directly - turn the wheel abruptly at a moderate speed - what you feel is called acceleration.