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Can an object *immediately* start moving at a high velocity?

What I mean is, suppose a ball is fired from a cannon. Suppose the ball is moving at 100 m/s in the first second. Would the ball have started from 1m/s to 2m/s and gradually arrived at 100m/s? And is ...
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Why isn't the acceleration at the top point of a ball’s journey zero?

When I shoot a ball vertically upward, its velocity is decreasing since there is a downward acceleration of about $9.8\,\mathrm{ms}^{-2}$. I have read that at the top most point, when $v = 0$, the ...
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