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  2. Acceleration - Wikipedia

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    The magnitude of an object's acceleration, as described by Newton's Second Law, [3] is the combined effect of two causes: the net balance of all external forces acting onto that object — magnitude is directly proportional to this net resulting force;

  3. Jerk (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Discontinuities in acceleration do not occur in real-world environments because of deformation, quantum mechanics effects, and other causes. However, a jump-discontinuity in acceleration and, accordingly, unbounded jerk are feasible in an idealized setting, such as an idealized point mass moving along a piecewise smooth, whole continuous path ...

  4. Pioneer anomaly - Wikipedia

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    The effect is an extremely small acceleration towards the Sun, of (8.74 ± 1.33) × 10 −10 m/s 2, which is equivalent to a reduction of the outbound velocity by 1 km/h over a period of ten years. The two spacecraft were launched in 1972 and 1973. The anomalous acceleration was first noticed as early as 1980 but not seriously investigated ...

  5. Proper acceleration - Wikipedia

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    The "acceleration of gravity" (involved in the "force of gravity") never contributes to proper acceleration in any circumstances, and thus the proper acceleration felt by observers standing on the ground is due to the mechanical force from the ground, not due to the "force" or "acceleration" of gravity. If the ground is removed and the observer ...

  6. Cavendish experiment - Wikipedia

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    In Cavendish's time, physicists used the same units for mass and weight, in effect taking g as a standard acceleration. Then, since R earth was known, ρ earth played the role of an inverse gravitational constant.

  7. Flyby anomaly - Wikipedia

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    An empirical equation for the anomalous flyby velocity change was proposed in 2008 by J. D. Anderson et al.: [12] = (⁡ ⁡), where ω E is the angular frequency of the Earth, R E is the Earth radius, and φ i and φ o are the inbound and outbound equatorial angles of the spacecraft.

  8. Angular acceleration - Wikipedia

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    In physics, angular acceleration (symbol α, alpha) is the time rate of change of angular velocity.Following the two types of angular velocity, spin angular velocity and orbital angular velocity, the respective types of angular acceleration are: spin angular acceleration, involving a rigid body about an axis of rotation intersecting the body's centroid; and orbital angular acceleration ...

  9. Science project - Wikipedia

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    A science project is an educational activity for students involving experiments or construction of models in one of the science disciplines. Students may present their science project at a science fair, so they may also call it a science fair project. Science projects may be classified into four main types.