KILCHER HOMESTEAD LIVING MUSEUM. 1  In the early 1940âs Yule Kilcher and his bride Ruth came to Alaska from Switzerland to start a new life in Homer, on the shores of Kachemak Bay. 2  Our family lived the subsistence lifestyle, gathering wild greens, hunting moose and catching salmon for food and growing a large garden.
If the acceleration is negative and the velocity is also negative, the speed of the object increases.Deceleration: It means a reduction in speed or a slowing down. Some confusion is there between deceleration and negative acceleration. Negative acceleration can increase the speed of an object.
At the peak of the trajectory, a vertically thrown object has gravity acting on it (accelerating it downwards at 9.8 m/s/s) while its velocity is zero. A simple example using calculus also suffices. which has zero velocity at [math]t=t_0[/math] and non-zero acceleration at [math]t=t_0[/math].