The motion of the body moving along a circular path is an example of ______.

The correct answer is accelerated motion.

Key Points

• The rate at which an object's velocity with respect to time changes is referred to as acceleration in mechanics.
• A body travelling in a circle at a constant speed is said to be moving at an accelerated rate since its motion is uniform in speed but not in velocity, which can be expressed in magnitude and direction as a vector quantity.
• The item is said to be accelerating when the magnitude remains constant but the direction shifts in a circular motion.

Additional Information

•  Decelerated motion
  • ​A moving item might slow down or come to a stop as a result of unbalanced forces, reducing its speed. For instance, when a ball is thrown upward, it experiences both the upward applied force and the downward gravitational force.
• Non-uniform motion
  • ​No matter how long the time intervals are, non-uniform motion refers to movement in which the item does not go the same lengths in the same amount of time. The motion of the body is regarded as non-uniform motion whenever the velocity of the moving object changes at a different pace, throughout the course of the same time interval.
• Uniform motion
  • This kind of motion is described as the movement of an item that travels in a straight line and maintains a constant speed along that line while traversing equal distances in similar amounts of time, regardless of the length of the time. If a body is moving rectilinearly and the motion is steady, then the body's acceleration must be zero.