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Originally Posted by davidkneiber
i don't know how useful this is, good luck OP, even if you get convicted of doing 38mph, if the street limit was 35 you're just as guilty in the eyes of the court.
this by the way isn't accurate because acceleration isn't uniform.
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Another way to look at it:
Acceleration = F/m, where F is the net force applied to a mass, m.
a=f/m,
acceleration in terms of velocity.
a = v - u/t Delta Velocity divided by Time.
A = ΔV ÷ T Acceleration is worked out by (final speed - initial speed)/ time taken for change in speed a = v2-v1/ t2-t1 Strictly you should say velocity ie the speed in a certain direction. Youalso have the formula f=ma which tells you that the force needed to get something moving will be the mass of the object multiplied by the accelertion you want to achieve; so from this formula if you know force and mass you can work out acceleration. The formula for acceleration is: Vf-(Vi)/t ie. change in velocity per unit time. Instantaneous acceleration in its differential form is d2x/dt2 where x is a function of time t.
Acceleration is the time rate of change of velocity.
That is, acceleration =dv/dt (v - velocity ; t - time)
Or simply acceleration = change in velocity / time
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