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yes, because force is a push or pull, so an example would be that wind (the force) pushed the bike faster toward a building and steered the bike around the building, which causes the bike to change direction. This is an example of velocity too. Velocity is speed in a specific direction.

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A force can cause an object to change its speed if it has a component along the same direction with its speed. It can change its direction if it has a component in a different direction from the direction of its speed.

so if a force is

1) parallel to the direction of speed and motion it only changes the speed.

2)If it makes an angle different than 90 degrees with the direction of motion it changes both direction and speed

3) if it is perpendicular(90 degrees) to the direction of motion it only changes the direction of motion and causes the object to make circular motion

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What is a force that can cause an object to change its speed and direction?

A basic physics answer for this is that a net force (or unbalanced force) will cause an object to accelerate, that is, cause the object to change its speed and/or direction.


An unbalanced force can cause an object to change its speed and or?

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What will change if a force pushes an object in the same direction as the object's motion?

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