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What is the difference between uniform and constant velocity? Is acceleration zero in the case of both constant and uniform velocity?


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Definition

  1. The speed of such an item traveling in a certain direction has been defined as its velocity.
  2. An object's velocity might well be uniform as well as varied. During uniform motion, velocity remains unchanged throughout time as well as any variation throughout velocity is zero.

The difference between uniform and constant velocity

Uniform velocityConstant velocity
  1. The condition in which a body covers an equal distance in an equal interval of time is known to be uniform velocity. Both its magnitude and direction do not change with time, then it can be said that the body is at a uniform velocity.
1. Constant velocity is the velocity whose direction as well as magnitude remains constant
2. Example: An object traveling northward at a speed of 10 km/h.2. Example: A automobile traveling at a steady pace will travel the same distance in the same amount of time.

When an object is moving in a straight line, without any acceleration. No change in speed or direction is experienced. and change in velocity for any time interval is zero.


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