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  2. Speed - Wikipedia

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    The average speed of an object in an interval of time is the distance travelled by the object divided by the duration of the interval; [2] the instantaneous speed is the limit of the average speed as the duration of the time interval approaches zero. Speed is the magnitude of velocity (a vector), which indicates additionally the direction of ...

  3. Motion graphs and derivatives - Wikipedia

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    Since the velocity of the object is the derivative of the position graph, the area under the line in the velocity vs. time graph is the displacement of the object. (Velocity is on the y-axis and time on the x-axis. Multiplying the velocity by the time, the time cancels out, and only displacement remains.)

  4. Reaction rate - Wikipedia

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    Iron rusting has a low reaction rate. This process is slow. Wood combustion has a high reaction rate. This process is fast. The reaction rate or rate of reaction is the speed at which a chemical reaction takes place, defined as proportional to the increase in the concentration of a product per unit time and to the decrease in the concentration of a reactant per unit time. [1]

  5. Kinetic theory of gases - Wikipedia

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    The most probable (or mode) speed is 81.6% of the root-mean-square speed , and the mean (arithmetic mean, or average) speed ¯ is 92.1% of the rms speed (isotropic distribution of speeds). See: Average, Root-mean-square speed; Arithmetic mean; Mean; Mode (statistics)

  6. Length contraction - Wikipedia

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    Then, at a speed of 13 400 000 m/s (30 million mph, 0.0447 c) contracted length is 99.9% of the length at rest; at a speed of 42 300 000 m/s (95 million mph, 0.141 c), the length is still 99%. As the magnitude of the velocity approaches the speed of light, the effect becomes prominent.

  7. Speed of gravity - Wikipedia

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    Distance: Time: one foot: 1.0 ns: one metre: 3.3 ns: from geostationary orbit to Earth: 119 ms: the length of Earth's equator: 134 ms: from Moon to Earth: 1.3 s: from Sun to Earth (1 AU) 8.3 min: one light year: 1.0 year: one parsec: 3.26 years: from nearest star to Sun (1.3 pc) 4.2 years: from the nearest galaxy (the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy ...

  8. Acceleration - Wikipedia

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    The velocity of a particle moving on a curved path as a function of time can be written as: = () = (), with v(t) equal to the speed of travel along the path, and = (), a unit vector tangent to the path pointing in the direction of motion at the chosen moment in time.

  9. Equations for a falling body - Wikipedia

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    A set of equations describing the trajectories of objects subject to a constant gravitational force under normal Earth-bound conditions.Assuming constant acceleration g due to Earth's gravity, Newton's law of universal gravitation simplifies to F = mg, where F is the force exerted on a mass m by the Earth's gravitational field of strength g.