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Old 10-19-2012, 01:07 AM   #108
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Originally Posted by Smittie61984 View Post
(though technically I think you could say you are accelerating at 0 meters per second for every second
Finally I understand why the seconds are squared. Been so many years since school that I forgot that shit. Its talking about a velocity increase of X mps every second. So, if the acceleration was 5 mpss, then the velocity would be 5 mps after the first second, 10 after the second, and so on.

But what if the rate of accel is increasing, how would you express that in one number?
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