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  2. Classical central-force problem - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the areal velocity is constant for a particle acted upon by any type of central force; this is Kepler's second law. [13] Conversely, if the motion under a conservative force F is planar and has constant areal velocity for all initial conditions of the radius r and velocity v, then the azimuthal acceleration a φ is always zero.

  3. Areal velocity - Wikipedia

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    In classical mechanics, areal velocity (also called sector velocity or sectorial velocity) is a pseudovector whose length equals the rate of change at which area is swept out by a particle as it moves along a curve. It has SI units of square meters per second (m 2 /s) and dimension of square length per time L 2 T −1.

  4. Centripetal force - Wikipedia

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    In particle accelerators, velocity can be very high (close to the speed of light in vacuum) so the same rest mass now exerts greater inertia (relativistic mass) thereby requiring greater force for the same centripetal acceleration, so the equation becomes: [11] = where = is the Lorentz factor.

  5. Equations for a falling body - Wikipedia

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    This velocity is the asymptotic limiting value of the acceleration process, because the effective forces on the body balance each other more and more closely as the terminal velocity is approached. In this example, a speed of 50 % of terminal velocity is reached after only about 3 seconds, while it takes 8 seconds to reach 90 %, 15 seconds to ...

  6. Drag equation - Wikipedia

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    The drag force can also be specified as where P D is the pressure exerted by the fluid on area A.Here the pressure P D is referred to as dynamic pressure due to the kinetic energy of the fluid experiencing relative flow velocity u.

  7. Stokes' law - Wikipedia

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    g is the gravitational acceleration [m/s 2] Requiring the force balance F d = F e and solving for the velocity v gives the terminal velocity v s. Note that since the excess force increases as R 3 and Stokes' drag increases as R, the terminal velocity increases as R 2 and thus varies greatly with particle

  8. Equations of motion - Wikipedia

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    There are two main descriptions of motion: dynamics and kinematics.Dynamics is general, since the momenta, forces and energy of the particles are taken into account. In this instance, sometimes the term dynamics refers to the differential equations that the system satisfies (e.g., Newton's second law or Euler–Lagrange equations), and sometimes to the solutions to those equations.

  9. List of equations in classical mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Unprimed quantities refer to position, velocity and acceleration in one frame F; primed quantities refer to position, velocity and acceleration in another frame F' moving at translational velocity V or angular velocity Ω relative to F. Conversely F moves at velocity (—V or —Ω) relative to F'. The situation is similar for relative ...