<span>rusting takes a long time, and rusting is a chemical change</span>
I think the answer to this is chemical
It results change only in it's kinetic energy, it's KE will increase in accord with the work-energy theorem
By
vector addition.
In fact, velocity is a vector, with a magnitude intensity, a direction and a verse, so we can't simply do an algebraic sum of the two (or more velocities).
First we need to decompose each velocity on both x- and y-axis (if we are on a 2D-plane), then we should do the algebraic sum of all the components on the x- axis and of all the components on the y-axis, to find the resultants on x- and y-axis. And finally, the magnitude of the resultant will be given by

where Rx and Rx are the resultants on x- and y-axis. The direction of the resultant will be given by

where

is its direction with respect to the x-axis.