要明白什麼叫accleration 即加速率, 首先要知accleration其實係一個vector
First
Vector, 係乜黎呢?
係有方向性的,呢個好重要
Then
GIVE you an example
你係條路上面加速向左行,咁你的acceleration係正定係負呢
Ans: 不是正也不是負
因為acceleration係vector, 你要定義左邊個方向係正先
例如,如果我定義剛剛那個situation, i let left direction as positive
hence a is positive, that mean it carry out positive acceleration or negative deceleration
but if i let right direction as negative
a is negative, that mean it carry out positive deceleration or negative acceleration
If you look on the physics point of view, the definition of acceleration is
acceleration = (final velocity - initial velocity)/time taken
In [acceleration decrease], the final velocity is still greater than the initial velocity, though the difference becomes smaller than before. That is, the magnitude of the acceleration is still positvie.
In [decceleration], or sometimes called retardation, the final velocity is smaller than the initial velocity, i.e. the difference of (final velocity - initial velocity) is negative and thus the magnitude of acceleration (i.e. decceleration) is negative.
Hence, acceleration decrease and decceleration means differently in physics.