How do I tell if an object is accelerating?

(if you have any examples that would be helpful to)

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How do I tell if an object is accelerating?

(if you have any examples that would be helpful to)

memeXpapi · Answer

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.-google

darkknight · Answer

take a eraser, record the experiment with a camera if you can, drop the eraser from a high height and observe, does the object speed up while it is falling?

darkknight · Answer

There are other experiments that you can do too, if for convenience you need a different one you can always use gravity, which has a relatively constant acceleration of 9.8m/s^2 depending on your area.

darkknight · Answer

memexpapi wrote:

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.-google

question wasn't asking for this but good reference

Fan999 · Answer

@darkknight wrote:

memexpapi wrote:

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.-google

question wasn't asking for this but good reference

Thank you :)

Fan999 · Answer

@memexpapi wrote:

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.-google

Thanks

memeXpapi · Answer

@fan999 wrote:

@memexpapi wrote:

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.-google

Thanks

np!