Forward and downward speed are referred to as acceleration and deceleration respectively.
What is Acceleration?
This is the rate at which an object gains speed with respect to time with its unit being meter per second square(m/s²).
Objects in constant speed are said to have a uniform motion. The downward speed is known as deceleration which involves the object losing speed to return to a state of rest.
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