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Originally Posted by Homeslice
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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You would have to use calculus. Integrals and Derivatives and all that nonsense. I don't even want to think of that right now.
Here you go, example 2 at the bottom of the page talks about skydivers, have fun with the equations, it's too early for this shit.
http://www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca/coursed.../velocity.html