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  2. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    In between bounces, the ball's height as a function of time is close to being a parabola, deviating from a parabolic arc because of air resistance, spin, and deformation into a non-spherical shape upon impact. If a body falls from rest near the surface of the Earth, then in the absence of air resistance, it will accelerate at a constant rate.

  3. Drag (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In aerodynamics, aerodynamic drag, also known as air resistance, is the fluid drag force that acts on any moving solid body in the direction of the air's freestream flow. [ 23 ] From the body's perspective (near-field approach), the drag results from forces due to pressure distributions over the body surface, symbolized D p r {\displaystyle D ...

  4. Newton's sine-square law of air resistance - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Newton 's sine-squared law of air resistance is a formula that implies the force on a flat plate immersed in a moving fluid is proportional to the square of the sine of the angle of attack. Although Newton did not analyze the force on a flat plate himself, the techniques he used for spheres, cylinders, and conical bodies were later ...

  5. Breathing - Wikipedia

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    Real-time magnetic resonance imaging of the human thorax during breathing X-ray video of a female American alligator while breathing. Breathing (spiration [1] or ventilation) is the rhythmical process of moving air into and out of the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the internal environment, mostly to flush out carbon dioxide and bring in oxygen.

  6. BBC Bitesize - Wikipedia

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    BBC. URL. bbc.co.uk /bitesize. Launched. 1998. Current status. Active. BBC Bitesize, [ 1 ] also abbreviated to Bitesize, is the BBC 's free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the United Kingdom. It is designed to aid pupils in both schoolwork and, for older pupils, exams.

  7. Convection - Wikipedia

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    The downward moving exterior is caused by colder air being displaced at the top of the thermal. Another convection-driven weather effect is the sea breeze. [17] [18] Stages of a thunderstorm's life. Warm air has a lower density than cool air, so warm air rises within cooler air, [19] similar to hot air balloons. [20]

  8. Drag equation - Wikipedia

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    In fluid dynamics, the drag equation is a formula used to calculate the force of drag experienced by an object due to movement through a fully enclosing fluid. The equation is: where. is the drag coefficient – a dimensionless coefficient related to the object's geometry and taking into account both skin friction and form drag.

  9. Momentum - Wikipedia

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    e. In Newtonian mechanics, momentum (pl.: momenta or momentums; more specifically linear momentum or translational momentum) is the product of the mass and velocity of an object. It is a vector quantity, possessing a magnitude and a direction. If m is an object's mass and v is its velocity (also a vector quantity), then the object's momentum p ...