Luke's speed doubles. Does the size of Luke's acceleration a

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1. Unfortunately, this is the only info I have.2. None, it's a non-science physics course.3. I have no idea, as I am really bad at this :(
 
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Does the size of Luke's acceleration a... what? If the question is whether the acceleration doubles, the answer is no; speed and acceleration are independent of each other, so knowing that the speed doubles, in itself, tells you nothing about what happens to the acceleration.

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