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  2. Working mass - Wikipedia

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    v = ship velocity. u = exhaust velocity. M = ship mass, not including the working mass. m = total mass ejected from the ship (working mass). The term working mass is used primarily in the aerospace field. In more "down to earth" examples, the working mass is typically provided by the Earth, which contains so much momentum in comparison to most ...

  3. Mass flow rate - Wikipedia

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    Mass flow rate is defined by the limit [3] [4] ˙ = =, i.e., the flow of mass through a surface per time .. The overdot on ˙ is Newton's notation for a time derivative.Since mass is a scalar quantity, the mass flow rate (the time derivative of mass) is also a scalar quantity.

  4. Mass flux - Wikipedia

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    Mathematically, mass flux is defined as the limit =, where = = is the mass current (flow of mass m per unit time t) and A is the area through which the mass flows.. For mass flux as a vector j m, the surface integral of it over a surface S, followed by an integral over the time duration t 1 to t 2, gives the total amount of mass flowing through the surface in that time (t 2 − t 1): = ^.

  5. Variable-mass system - Wikipedia

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    At instant 1, a mass dm with velocity u is about to collide with the main body of mass m and velocity v. After a time dt, at instant 2, both particles move as one body with velocity v + dv. The following derivation is for a body that is gaining mass . A body of time-varying mass m moves at a velocity v at an initial time t.

  6. Elastic collision - Wikipedia

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    With respect to the center of mass, both velocities are reversed by the collision: a heavy particle moves slowly toward the center of mass, and bounces back with the same low speed, and a light particle moves fast toward the center of mass, and bounces back with the same high speed. The velocity of the center of mass does not change by the ...

  7. Reduced mass - Wikipedia

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    In physics, reduced mass is a measure of the effective inertial mass of a system with two or more particles when the particles are interacting with each other. Reduced mass allows the two-body problem to be solved as if it were a one-body problem. Note, however, that the mass determining the gravitational force is not reduced.

  8. Brownian motion - Wikipedia

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    The rms velocity V of the massive object, of mass M, is related to the rms velocity of the background stars by where is the mass of the background stars. The gravitational force from the massive object causes nearby stars to move faster than they otherwise would, increasing both v ⋆ {\displaystyle v_{\star }} and V . [ 25 ]

  9. Graham's law - Wikipedia

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    This formula is stated as: =, where: Rate 1 is the rate of effusion for the first gas. (volume or number of moles per unit time). Rate 2 is the rate of effusion for the second gas. M 1 is the molar mass of gas 1 M 2 is the molar mass of gas 2.