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If an object travels on a circular path is an acceleration? What is changing to cause an acceleration?
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If an object travels on a circular path is an acceleration? What is changing to cause an acceleration?

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For this reason, it can be safely concluded that an object moving in a circle at constant speed is indeed accelerating. It is accelerating because the direction of the velocity vector is changing.
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