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True or false, if a train is slowing down is it accelerating?
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True or false, if a train is slowing down is it accelerating?

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the answer would be yes the train is accelerating still but its going at a slow rate

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That's true.

"Acceleration" does NOT mean "speeding up". It means any
change in the speed or direction of motion. So speeding up,
slowing down, or going around a curve at a steady speed ...
are all examples of acceleration.

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