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No because you touch yourself at night.

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Actually, it does not because when your mother dropped you from 2 meters above the ground, you fell at a negative VELOCITY. Speed does not specify direction, and therefore can not be negative.

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Is it possible to have negative value in speed and displacement?

No, in physics, speed and displacement are scalar quantities that represent magnitudes and cannot be negative. However, the direction of motion can be indicated by assigning a negative or positive sign to the speed or displacement value.


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Velocity is a vector and its magnitude depends on the direction. If it is positive in one direction, going in the opposite direction it is negative. But speed is a scalar and does not depend on the direction. It has the same value, whatever the direction. That is how the absolute value of velocity is speed.


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Speed is (distance covered in some time) / (time to cover the distance).Neither the distance covered in the time, nor the time duration, can be negative.If you'll say "Well what about moving backwards ?", then you have introduced the directionof motion into the discussion, and now you're talking about velocity, not speed. Velocity caneasily be negative, but speed can't.


What does a negative add a positive equal?

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What happens to your speed if you have a negative acceleration do you speed up or slow down?

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