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  2. Acceleration - Wikipedia

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    Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity. At any point on a trajectory, the magnitude of the acceleration is given by the rate of change of velocity in both magnitude and direction at that point. The true acceleration at time t is found in the limit as time interval Δt → 0 of Δv/Δt.

  3. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    Newton's first law expresses the principle of inertia: the natural behavior of a body is to move in a straight line at constant speed. A body's motion preserves the status quo, but external forces can perturb this. The modern understanding of Newton's first law is that no inertial observer is privileged over any other.

  4. Momentum - Wikipedia

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    hence the net force is equal to the mass of the particle times its acceleration. [1] Example: A model airplane of mass 1 kg accelerates from rest to a velocity of 6 m/s due north in 2 s. The net force required to produce this acceleration is 3 newtons due north. The change in momentum is 6 kg⋅m/s due north.

  5. Centrifugal force - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Centrifugal force is a fictitious force in Newtonian mechanics (also called an "inertial" or "pseudo" force) that appears to act on all objects when viewed in a rotating frame of reference. It appears to be directed radially away from the axis of rotation of the frame.

  6. Classical mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Since the definition of acceleration is a = dv/dt, the second law can be written in the simplified and more familiar form: F = m a . {\displaystyle \mathbf {F} =m\mathbf {a} \,.} So long as the force acting on a particle is known, Newton's second law is sufficient to describe the motion of a particle.

  7. Mole (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The mole (symbol mol) is a unit of measurement, the base unit in the International System of Units (SI) for amount of substance, a quantity proportional to the number of elementary entities of a substance. One mole contains exactly 6.022 140 76 × 1023 elementary entities (approximately 602 sextillion or 602 billion times a trillion), which can ...

  8. Equations of motion - Wikipedia

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    To state this formally, in general an equation of motion M is a function of the position r of the object, its velocity (the first time derivative of r, v = ⁠dr dt⁠), and its acceleration (the second derivative of r, a = ⁠d2r dt2⁠), and time t. Euclidean vectors in 3D are denoted throughout in bold.

  9. Chemical equation - Wikipedia

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    A chemical equation is the symbolic representation of a chemical reaction in the form of symbols and chemical formulas.The reactant entities are given on the left-hand side and the product entities are on the right-hand side with a plus sign between the entities in both the reactants and the products, and an arrow that points towards the products to show the direction of the reaction. [1]