If you are driving a car with a velocity of -25 m/s and you have an acceleration of -2 m/s^2, are you speeding up or slowing down? Why?

Respuesta :

Answer:

Hmmm...

This is a bit tricky

Ok...

Negative Velocity means you're Moving in the Opposite direction....

Negative Acceleration (deceleration) means you're slowing down.

Deceleration would mean slowing down if you were Moving with a Positive velocity.

But In this case...

You're Moving with negative velocity and Negative acceleration...

This simply means that the acceleration and velocity vector are in the same direction....

Its means that...

"YOU'RE SPEEDING UP"

Just that you're doing it in the opposite direction.

Hope this helps.