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  2. Acceleration - Wikipedia

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    The acceleration of a falling body in the absence of resistances to motion is dependent only on the gravitational field strength g (also called acceleration due to gravity). By Newton's Second Law the force F g {\displaystyle \mathbf {F_{g}} } acting on a body is given by: F g = m g . {\displaystyle \mathbf {F_{g}} =m\mathbf {g} .}

  3. Projectile motion - Wikipedia

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    Projectile motion is a form of motion experienced by an object or particle (a projectile) that is projected in a gravitational field, such as from Earth's surface, and moves along a curved path (a trajectory) under the action of gravity only.

  4. Motion - Wikipedia

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    This motion is the most obscure as it is not physical motion, but rather a change in the very nature of the universe. The primary source of verification of this expansion was provided by Edwin Hubble who demonstrated that all galaxies and distant astronomical objects were moving away from Earth, known as Hubble's law , predicted by a universal ...

  5. Accelerator physics - Wikipedia

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    Accelerator physics is a branch of applied physics, concerned with designing, building and operating particle accelerators.As such, it can be described as the study of motion, manipulation and observation of relativistic charged particle beams and their interaction with accelerator structures by electromagnetic fields.

  6. Hyperbolic motion (relativity) - Wikipedia

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    Hyperbolic motion is the motion of an object with constant proper acceleration in special relativity. It is called hyperbolic motion because the equation describing the path of the object through spacetime is a hyperbola , as can be seen when graphed on a Minkowski diagram whose coordinates represent a suitable inertial (non-accelerated) frame.

  7. Mean speed theorem - Wikipedia

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    Galileo's demonstration of the law of the space traversed in case of uniformly varied motion. It is the same demonstration that Oresme had made centuries earlier. The mean speed theorem , also known as the Merton rule of uniform acceleration , [ 1 ] was discovered in the 14th century by the Oxford Calculators of Merton College , and was proved ...

  8. Spatial acceleration - Wikipedia

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    Spatial acceleration entails looking at a fixed (unmoving) point in space and observing the change in velocity of the particles that pass through that point. This is similar to the definition of acceleration in fluid dynamics, where typically one measures velocity and/or acceleration at a fixed point inside a testing apparatus.

  9. Acceleration (differential geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of acceleration is a covariant derivative concept. In other words, in order to define acceleration an additional structure on M {\displaystyle M} must be given. Using abstract index notation , the acceleration of a given curve with unit tangent vector ξ a {\displaystyle \xi ^{a}} is given by ξ b ∇ b ξ a {\displaystyle \xi ^{b ...