PLEASE CLEAR MY DOUBT

Question

anonymous · Answer

If a body is moving with certain velocity and it changes direction then can we say the body is accelerating? 
I think so because change in velocity is acceleration

anonymous · Answer

@amistre64

anonymous · Answer

@sidsiddhartha

amistre64 · Answer

velocity is a vector, there is more than one way to change a vector:  speed and direction.

so yes, change in direction is also acceleration

anonymous · Answer

But mathematically 
dv/dx  
dosen't account for direction

amistre64 · Answer

dv/dx is rate of change in speed, since its assumed to start with that you are playing in a plane

amistre64 · Answer

acceleration is actually a computaion of normal and tangent vectors

anonymous · Answer

oh ok!

amistre64 · Answer

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcIII/Velocity_Acceleration.aspx this gives a better overview

anonymous · Answer

But a common misconception is that accelearation is when velocity increases or decreases uniformly or non-uniformly. And one dosen't think about direction 
But actually the defination says something different

anonymous · Answer

Forgive me for the spelling mistakes i made