RG <[email protected]> wrote:
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| This reminds me of back when I was a kid and my dad was trying to teach
| me basic physics. He kept saying that the acceleration of gravity was
| 9.8 meters per second squared and I just couldn't wrap my brain around
| what it meant to square a second.
|
| Now that I think about it, I still can't. :-)
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Write it our longhand and it's easier to grok:
9.8 m/s^2 ==> 9.8 m/(s*s) ==> 9.8 m/(s*s) ==>
(9.8 meters per second) per second.
\ /
\__ speed added __/ per second
-Rob
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