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  2. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    Newton's second law, in modern form, states that the time derivative of the momentum is the force: =. If the mass m {\displaystyle m} does not change with time, then the derivative acts only upon the velocity, and so the force equals the product of the mass and the time derivative of the velocity, which is the acceleration: [ 22 ] F = m d v d t ...

  3. Rotating reference frame - Wikipedia

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    This equation has exactly the form of Newton's second law, except that in addition to F, the sum of all forces identified in the inertial frame, there is an extra term on the right...This means we can continue to use Newton's second law in the noninertial frame provided we agree that in the noninertial frame we must add an extra force-like term ...

  4. Second law of thermodynamics - Wikipedia

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    The second law of thermodynamics may be expressed in many specific ways, [23] the most prominent classical statements [24] being the statement by Rudolf Clausius (1854), the statement by Lord Kelvin (1851), and the statement in axiomatic thermodynamics by Constantin Carathéodory (1909). These statements cast the law in general physical terms ...

  5. Centripetal force - Wikipedia

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    By Newton's second law, the cause of acceleration is a net force acting on the object, which is proportional to its mass m and its acceleration. The force, usually referred to as a centripetal force , has a magnitude [ 7 ] F c = m a c = m v 2 r {\displaystyle F_{c}=ma_{c}=m{\frac {v^{2}}{r}}} and is, like centripetal acceleration, directed ...

  6. Laws of thermodynamics - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, thermodynamics has recognized three fundamental laws, simply named by an ordinal identification, the first law, the second law, and the third law. [1] [2] [3] A more fundamental statement was later labelled as the zeroth law after the first three laws had been established.

  7. Rigid body dynamics - Wikipedia

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    The dynamics of a rigid body system is described by the laws of kinematics and by the application of Newton's second law or their derivative form, Lagrangian mechanics. The solution of these equations of motion provides a description of the position, the motion and the acceleration of the individual components of the system, and overall the ...

  8. Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment - Wikipedia

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    Delft tower experiment; Terminal velocity (An object dropped through air from a sufficient height will reach a steady speed, called the terminal velocity, when the aerodynamic drag force pushing up on the body balances the gravitational force (weight) pulling the body down.) Nordtvedt effect; Newton's second law; Law of Inertia

  9. Newtonian dynamics - Wikipedia

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    i.e. they take the form of Newton's second law applied to a single particle with the unit mass =.. Definition.The equations are called the equations of a Newtonian dynamical system in a flat multidimensional Euclidean space, which is called the configuration space of this system.