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Direction of acceleration

If a spacecraft is fired vertically upwards from the surface of the Earth at an initial velocity of x and it reaches a specific height at which the velocity is y, assuming the spacecraft's engine is turned off after it is fired and no air resistance would x be greater than y? If the only force acting is weight then wouldn't the spacecraft be accelerating towards Earth meaning y would be less than x? I'm not quite sure what direction the spacecraft is accelerating

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Oaklasaurus

Original post by _JOKER_

Hiya, in this case I would assume that y would be less than x. If you think about the path of a projectile, if y was bigger than x then something would never come down! The only force acting would be it's weight and so the velocity would decrease as the direction of acceleration is downwards.
hope this helped!