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To: LPS5 who wrote (472)8/23/2000 12:06:59 AM
From: Dan Duchardt  Read Replies (1) of 1426
 
LPS5,

Just working my way through this discussion, and this is probably not the best place to start moving my fingers, but in the spirit of the conversation the old physicist in me can't resist :)

But that doesn't make a subsequent assertion that a car going from 60 to 50 to 40 to 30 miles per hour is accelerating any more correct - does it?

Actually, such an assertion is perfectly correct. Technically, any object that changes speed or direction is accelerating. The common usage of the term deceleration to describe a reduction in speed is just a special case of the more general physical phenomenon of acceleration.

Dan
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