Question

An object moves with a positive acceleration. Could the object be moving with increasing speed, decreasing speed or constant speed

Answer 1

Answer:

Increasing speed.

Explanation:

In physics, acceleration can be defined as the rate of change of the velocity of an object with respect to time.

This simply means that, acceleration is given by the subtraction of initial velocity from the final velocity all over time.

Hence, if we subtract the initial velocity from the final velocity and divide that by the time, we can calculate an object’s acceleration.

Mathematically, acceleration is given by the equation;

$Acceleration (a) = \frac{final \; velocity - initial \; velocity}{time}$

In this scenario, an object moves with a positive acceleration. Thus, the object is moving with an increasing speed and as such it has acceleration in the same direction as its velocity with respect to time.