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What is happening to the velocity of an object if it has a negative acceleration?
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What is happening to the velocity of an object if it has a negative acceleration?

What is happening to the velocity of an object if it has a negative acceleration?-example-1
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Decreasing/ slowing down.
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According to our principle, when an object is slowing down, the acceleration is in the opposite direction as the velocity. Thus, this object has a negative acceleration. In Example D, the object is moving in the negative direction (i.e., has a negative velocity) and is speeding up.

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So it would be decreasing if its moving towards the negative!

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