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The rate of change of velocity of a body per unit of time.

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Why doesn't a braking car move backwards?

When you say that the acceleration caused by braking a car is "negative", what you really mean is that its direction is opposite to the direction of motion. … However, modeling motion and acceleration using positive or negative scalars only works if you are only interested in one dimension. …
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