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[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

We know, but also neither are acceleration and the magnitude of acceleration the same. Acceleration is a vector - it has a direction just as velocity does. Here's the definition I just copied from Google:

Acceleration: the rate of change of velocity per unit of time.

And here's how you write that in math:

a=∆v/∆t.

If you want to know more about the relationships between position, velocity, and acceleration, take a calculus class. Isaac Newton literally invented it to solve problems like this