Negative acceleration
What Negative acceleration means in Physics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Indicates a velocity change in the negative direction, meaning speeding up if velocity is negative, or slowing down if positive.
A negative result means the object is slowing down or accelerating in the opposite direction to its motion.
Sometimes called deceleration, it means the velocity change opposes the chosen positive direction.
Topics that use Negative acceleration
- Acceleration (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Acceleration
- Acceleration and units
- area under a graph
- Area under a graph as a physical quantity
- Average acceleration
- Change in velocity
- Compound geometric shapes in physics
- Direction convention
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