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How Do You Calculate Instantaneous Acceleration?
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Dembadon
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Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity.
Miike012
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ok for velocity I got 10.1 m/s and 10.25 m/s ...
so substract them is what you are telling me?
so substract them is what you are telling me?
Dembadon
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Both are functions of time, so just subtracting them will not be sufficient. Do you know a function for acceleration you can use? You can obtain it by taking the derivative of the function for velocity.
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im not in calc based phy
Dembadon
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I see, sorry about that.
Here's some information that you can use to solve this problem. I don't want to tell you too much because it is good for you to think about it.
a=(v-vo)/t
where
a=acceleration (m/s2)
v=final velocity (m/s)
vo=initial velocity (m/s)
t=time (s).
Here's some information that you can use to solve this problem. I don't want to tell you too much because it is good for you to think about it.
a=(v-vo)/t
where
a=acceleration (m/s2)
v=final velocity (m/s)
vo=initial velocity (m/s)
t=time (s).