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Using that value for the initial speed and a time of 36 seconds gives an acceleration of 0.75 meters per second per second.
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WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
When the field was slowly ramped down, the anti-hydrogen atoms drifted down like maple leaves in October and at the same rate of downward acceleration, or g force, as regular atoms: about 32 feet per second per second.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
Milgrom noticed that in diffuse systems like this, Newton’s laws begin to falter — and make untrustworthy predictions — whenever gravitational acceleration dips below a specific threshold, 10-10 meters per second per second, 100 billion times weaker than the force of gravity felt on Earth.
—Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2015
The nice thing about projectile motion is that once the ball is in the air, its horizontal velocity is constant and the acceleration in the vertical direction is –9.8 meters per second per second.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2022
So, if a car goes from 10 meters per second to 20 m/s in a time of 1 second, that car would have an acceleration of 10 meters per second per second.
—WIRED, 11 Nov. 2022
An acceleration of 1 meter per second per second (m/s2) says that the speed of an object will change (either increase or decrease) by 1 m/s every second.
—WIRED, 25 Sep. 2022
So, an acceleration of 0 meters per second per second means that the velocity won't change.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 11 Feb. 2022
However, with a downward-pulling gravitational force, Drake should have a vertical acceleration of -9.8 meters per second per second (due to the gravitational field).
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 Nov. 2021
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WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
When the field was slowly ramped down, the anti-hydrogen atoms drifted down like maple leaves in October and at the same rate of downward acceleration, or g force, as regular atoms: about 32 feet per second per second.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
Milgrom noticed that in diffuse systems like this, Newton’s laws begin to falter — and make untrustworthy predictions — whenever gravitational acceleration dips below a specific threshold, 10-10 meters per second per second, 100 billion times weaker than the force of gravity felt on Earth.
—Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2015
The nice thing about projectile motion is that once the ball is in the air, its horizontal velocity is constant and the acceleration in the vertical direction is –9.8 meters per second per second.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2022
So, if a car goes from 10 meters per second to 20 m/s in a time of 1 second, that car would have an acceleration of 10 meters per second per second.
—WIRED, 11 Nov. 2022
An acceleration of 1 meter per second per second (m/s2) says that the speed of an object will change (either increase or decrease) by 1 m/s every second.
—WIRED, 25 Sep. 2022
So, an acceleration of 0 meters per second per second means that the velocity won't change.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 11 Feb. 2022
However, with a downward-pulling gravitational force, Drake should have a vertical acceleration of -9.8 meters per second per second (due to the gravitational field).
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 Nov. 2021
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