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3 years ago

Thomas thinks that acceleration means “speeding up.” Explain why this is incorrect.

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Answer: Thomas is wrong because acceleration is the name we give to any process where the velocity changes. Since velocity is a speed and direction, there are only two ways for you to accelerate: change your speed or change your direction or both.

klemol [59]3 years ago

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Answer:

Explanation:

Thomas is incorrect because acceleration is a vector quantity that is defined as the rate at which an object changes its velocity. An object is accelerating if it is changing its velocity.

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$P$ is the pressure of the gas,
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$n$ won't change unless the balloon leaks, and
consider $P$ to be constant, for calculations that include $T$ .

$V_1 = V_0 \cdot \dfrac{T_1}{T_2} = 5.57\times 10^{4}\;\text{L}\times \dfrac{258.65\;\textbf{K}}{305.15\;\textbf{K}} = 4.72122\times 10^{4}\;\text{L}$ .

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