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  2. Equations for a falling body - Wikipedia

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    The first equation shows that, after one second, an object will have fallen a distance of 1/2 × 9.8 × 1 2 = 4.9 m. After two seconds it will have fallen 1/2 × 9.8 × 2 2 = 19.6 m; and so on. On the other hand, the penultimate equation becomes grossly inaccurate at great distances.

  3. International Prototype of the Kilogram - Wikipedia

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    For instance, K20, the US's primary standard, originally had an official mass of 1 kg − 39 μg (micrograms) in 1889; that is to say, K20 was 39 μg less than the IPK. A verification performed in 1948 showed a mass of 1 kg − 19 μg. The latest verification performed in 1989 shows a mass precisely identical to its original 1889 value.

  4. Newton's law of universal gravitation - Wikipedia

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    where F is the gravitational force acting between two objects, m 1 and m 2 are the masses of the objects, r is the distance between the centers of their masses, and G is the gravitational constant. The first test of Newton's law of gravitation between masses in the laboratory was the Cavendish experiment conducted by the British scientist Henry ...

  5. Circular motion - Wikipedia

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    The momentum of the body is 1 kg·m·s −1. The moment of inertia is 1 kg·m 2. The angular momentum is 1 kg·m 2 ·s −1. The kinetic energy is 0.5 joule. The circumference of the orbit is 2 π (~6.283) metres. The period of the motion is 2 π seconds. The frequency is (2 π) −1 hertz.

  6. List of moments of inertia - Wikipedia

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    Moment of inertia, denoted by I, measures the extent to which an object resists rotational acceleration about a particular axis; it is the rotational analogue to mass (which determines an object's resistance to linear acceleration). The moments of inertia of a mass have units of dimension ML 2 ([mass] × [length] 2).

  7. Elastic collision - Wikipedia

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    The final x and y velocities components of the first ball can be calculated as: [5] ′ = ⁡ () + ⁡ + ⁡ + ⁡ ⁡ (+) ′ = ⁡ () + ⁡ + ⁡ + ⁡ ⁡ (+), where v 1 and v 2 are the scalar sizes of the two original speeds of the objects, m 1 and m 2 are their masses, θ 1 and θ 2 are their movement angles, that is, = ⁡, = ⁡ (meaning ...

  8. Centers of gravity in non-uniform fields - Wikipedia

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    In a non-uniform field, gravitational effects such as potential energy, force, and torque can no longer be calculated using the center of mass alone. In particular, a non-uniform gravitational field can produce a torque on an object, even about an axis through the center of mass. The center of gravity seeks to explain this effect.

  9. Gravitational time dilation - Wikipedia

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    is the mass of the object creating the gravitational field, r {\displaystyle r} is the radial coordinate of the observer within the gravitational field (this coordinate is analogous to the classical distance from the center of the object, but is actually a Schwarzschild coordinate; the equation in this form has real solutions for r > r s ...