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  2. Linear motion - Wikipedia

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    The instantaneous velocity equation comes from finding the limit as t approaches 0 of the average velocity. The instantaneous velocity shows the position function with respect to time. From the instantaneous velocity the instantaneous speed can be derived by getting the magnitude of the instantaneous velocity.

  3. Circular motion - Wikipedia

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    Because speed is constant, the velocity vectors on the right sweep out a circle as time advances. For a swept angle dθ = ω dt the change in v is a vector at right angles to v and of magnitude v dθ , which in turn means that the magnitude of the acceleration is given by a c = v d θ d t = v ω = v 2 r {\displaystyle a_{c}=v{\frac {d\theta ...

  4. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    Instantaneous velocity can be defined as the limit of the average velocity as the time interval shrinks to zero: = (+) (). Acceleration is to velocity as velocity is to position: it is the derivative of the velocity with respect to time.

  5. Velocity - Wikipedia

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    Kinematic quantities of a classical particle: mass m, position r, velocity v, acceleration a. While the terms speed and velocity are often colloquially used interchangeably to connote how fast an object is moving, in scientific terms they are different. Speed, the scalar magnitude of a velocity vector, denotes only how fast an object is moving ...

  6. Equations of motion - Wikipedia

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    Trajectory of a particle with initial position vector r 0 and velocity v 0, subject to constant acceleration a, all three quantities in any direction, and the position r(t) and velocity v(t) after time t. The initial position, initial velocity, and acceleration vectors need not be collinear, and the equations of motion take an almost identical ...

  7. Jerk (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Deceleration ramp down — positive jerk limit; linear increase in acceleration to zero; quadratic decrease in velocity; approaching the desired position at zero speed and zero acceleration Segment four's time period (constant velocity) varies with distance between the two positions.

  8. Terminal velocity - Wikipedia

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    This speed is the asymptotic limiting value of the speed, and the forces acting on the body balance each other more and more closely as the terminal speed is approached. In this example, a speed of 50.0% of terminal speed is reached after only about 3 seconds, while it takes 8 seconds to reach 90%, 15 seconds to reach 99%, and so on.

  9. Inertial frame of reference - Wikipedia

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    where r 0 and t 0 represent shifts in the origin of space and time, and v is the relative velocity of the two inertial reference frames. Under Galilean transformations, the time t 2 − t 1 between two events is the same for all reference frames and the distance between two simultaneous events (or, equivalently, the length of any object, | r 2 ...