How can an object (e.g. car) have zero velocity and nonzero (+/-) acceleration?
On top of this, how would this result in the object "speeding up?"
On top of this, how would this result in the object "speeding up?"
1 Answer
Oct 30, 2016
Imagine a circle.
Explanation:
Recall the velocity is displacement divided by time. So when you are going around in a circle, like a race track, you can be speeding up the whole way through but when you reach exactly where you started, your instantaneous velocity is
