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  2. Impulse (physics) - Wikipedia

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    The impulse delivered by a varying force is the integral of the force F with respect to time: =. The SI unit of impulse is the newton second (N⋅s), and the dimensionally equivalent unit of momentum is the kilogram metre per second (kg⋅m/s).

  3. Lorentz force - Wikipedia

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    Lorentz force acting on fast-moving charged particles in a bubble chamber.Positive and negative charge trajectories curve in opposite directions. In physics, specifically in electromagnetism, the Lorentz force law is the combination of electric and magnetic force on a point charge due to electromagnetic fields.

  4. Classical central-force problem - Wikipedia

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    For an attractive force (α < 0), the orbit is an ellipse, a hyperbola or parabola, depending on whether u 1 is positive, negative, or zero, respectively; this corresponds to an eccentricity e less than one, greater than one, or equal to one. For a repulsive force (α > 0), u 1 must be negative, since u 2 is positive by definition and their sum ...

  5. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    The left-hand side is the time derivative of the momentum, and the right-hand side is the force, represented in terms of the potential energy. [9]: 737 Landau and Lifshitz argue that the Lagrangian formulation makes the conceptual content of classical mechanics more clear than starting with Newton's laws. [27]

  6. Impulse vector - Wikipedia

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    Consider two impulse vectors and in the figure on the right-hand side, in which is an impulse vector with magnitude (>) and angle corresponding to a positive impulse with >, and is an impulse vector with magnitude = and angle = + corresponding to a negative impulse with <.

  7. Newton-second - Wikipedia

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    The newton-second (also newton second; symbol: N⋅s or N s) [1] is the unit of impulse in the International System of Units (SI). It is dimensionally equivalent to the momentum unit kilogram-metre per second (kg⋅m/s). One newton-second corresponds to a one-newton force applied for one second.

  8. Contact force - Wikipedia

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    In the first case the force is continuously applied to the car by a person, while in the second case the force is delivered in a short impulse. Contact forces are often decomposed into orthogonal components, one perpendicular to the surface(s) in contact called the normal force, and one parallel to the surface(s) in contact, called the friction ...

  9. Inertial frame of reference - Wikipedia

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    with F the net force (a vector), m the mass of a particle and a the acceleration of the particle (also a vector) which would be measured by an observer at rest in the frame. The force F is the vector sum of all "real" forces on the particle, such as contact forces, electromagnetic, gravitational, and nuclear forces.