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07-01-2016
Physics

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a car is going around a roundabout.explain why we say that it is accelerating even if it is moving at a constant speed.

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07-01-2016

Because 'acceleration' does NOT mean 'speeding up'.
It means ANY change in motion ... speeding up, slowing down,
or changing DIRECTION.

When traveling a roundabout, or any curved path, the direction
is constantly changing even if the speed is constant, so there is
constant acceleration going on.

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