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  2. Acceleration - Wikipedia

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    The acceleration of a falling body in the absence of resistances to motion is dependent only on the gravitational field strength g (also called acceleration due to gravity). By Newton's Second Law the force F g {\displaystyle \mathbf {F_{g}} } acting on a body is given by: F g = m g . {\displaystyle \mathbf {F_{g}} =m\mathbf {g} .}

  3. Gravitational acceleration - Wikipedia

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    In physics, a gravitational field or gravitational acceleration field is a vector field used to explain the influences that a body extends into the space around itself. [6] A gravitational field is used to explain gravitational phenomena, such as the gravitational force field exerted on another massive body.

  4. Jerk (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Jump-discontinuity in acceleration can be modeled using a Dirac delta function in jerk, scaled to the height of the jump. Integrating jerk over time across the Dirac delta yields the jump-discontinuity. For example, consider a path along an arc of radius r, which tangentially connects to a straight line. The whole path is continuous, and its ...

  5. Equations of motion - Wikipedia

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    Given initial velocity u, one can calculate how high the ball will travel before it begins to fall. The acceleration is local acceleration of gravity g. While these quantities appear to be scalars, the direction of displacement, speed and acceleration is important. They could in fact be considered as unidirectional vectors.

  6. Metre per second squared - Wikipedia

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    The average acceleration a can be calculated by dividing the speed v (m/s) by the time t (s), so the average acceleration in the first example would be calculated: = ...

  7. Archimedes' principle - Wikipedia

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    We can express this relation in the equation: = where denotes the buoyant force applied onto the submerged object, denotes the density of the fluid, represents the volume of the displaced fluid and is the acceleration due to gravity. Thus, among completely submerged objects with equal masses, objects with greater volume have greater buoyancy.

  8. g-force - Wikipedia

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    Calculated acceleration of the mandibles of the ant species Mystrium camillae [41] 607,805 g: Acceleration of a nematocyst: the fastest recorded acceleration from any biological entity. [42] 5,410,000 g: Mean acceleration of a proton in the Large Hadron Collider [43] 190,000,000 g: Gravitational acceleration at the surface of a typical neutron ...

  9. Equations for a falling body - Wikipedia

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    Centripetal force causes the acceleration measured on the rotating surface of the Earth to differ from the acceleration that is measured for a free-falling body: the apparent acceleration in the rotating frame of reference is the total gravity vector minus a small vector toward the north–south axis of the Earth, corresponding to staying ...