Originally Posted By: 4Salt
When the question said "accelerates at 2m/s (squared) I was thinking in exponential terms? Kinda like when you jump out of an airplane and gravity accelerates you at 32 feet per second, per second until you reach terminal velocity.


You were not wrong. By definition the term acceleration implies a squared exponent on the time dimension in the unit's denominator. There is a more complex acceleration squared, vector, where the time dimension is cubed, but you don't want to go there.