• The metre per second squared or metre per square second is the unit of acceleration in the International System of Units (SI). As a derived unit, it is...
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  • encoded by Unicode at code point U+33A7 ㎧ SQUARE M OVER S. Orders of magnitude (speed) Metre per second squared Metre "Definitions of the SI base units". physics...
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  • per second squared (plural feet per second squared) is a unit of acceleration. It expresses change in velocity expressed in units of feet per second (ft/s)...
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  • in metres per second. Some units have their own names, such as the newton unit of force which is defined as kilogram times metres per second squared. The...
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    at one metre per second squared. The unit is named after Isaac Newton in recognition of his work on classical mechanics, specifically his second law of...
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  • kind acceleration, with dimension of length per time squared and units of metre per second squared (m·s−2). It is normally applied to forces other than...
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  • their derivation: for example, the square metre (m2), the SI derived unit of area; and the kilogram per cubic metre (kg/m3 or kg⋅m−3), the SI derived unit...
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    proportional to the object's mass. The SI unit for acceleration is metre per second squared (m⋅s−2, m s 2 {\displaystyle \mathrm {\tfrac {m}{s^{2}}} } ). For...
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  • especially in India as a prefix to a firm or company name. m/s2, metre per second squared m/s3, a unit of jerk m/s4, a unit of jounce MS (disambiguation)...
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    accelerations up to 1 metre per second squared, and the eight neighbours rule allows accelerations up to √2 metres per second squared. A more realistic maximum...
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  • acceleration is m ⋅ s − 2 {\displaystyle \mathrm {m\cdot s^{-2}} } or metre per second squared. If a avg {\displaystyle \mathbf {a} _{\text{avg}}} is the average...
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  • joule-second (J⋅s). In SI base units the joule-second becomes kilogram-meter squared-per second or kg⋅m2⋅s−1. Dimensional Analysis of the joule-second yields...
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  • frequency Inverse metre Reciprocal length Unit of time "The SI unit of frequency is given as the hertz, implying the unit cycles per second; the SI unit of...
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  • The candela per square metre (symbol: cd/m2) is the unit of luminance in the International System of Units (SI). The unit is based on the candela, the...
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  • (1 mlx). The nit (nt) is a unit of luminance equal to one candela per metre squared (1 cd⋅m−2). The lambert (L) is a unit of luminance equal to 104/π cd⋅m−2...
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    this acceleration is expressed in metres per second squared (in symbols, m/s2 or m·s−2) or equivalently in newtons per kilogram (N/kg or N·kg−1). Near Earth's...
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    unit. For example, the coherent derived SI unit of velocity is the metre per second, with the symbol m/s.: 139  The base and coherent derived units of...
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    m·s−2 (metres per second squared). This also can be expressed (multiplying by the gravitational constant G in order to change units) as newtons per kilogram...
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  • 807 m/s2 (metres per second squared, which might be thought of as "metres per second, per second"; or 32.18 ft/s2 as "feet per second per second") approximately...
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    Lux (redirect from Lumen per square meter)
    illuminance, or luminous flux per unit area, in the International System of Units (SI). It is equal to one lumen per square metre. In photometry, this is used...
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    defined as the force necessary to accelerate one kilogram at one metre per second squared. If the mass of the IPK were to change slightly then the newton...
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  • surface per unit area. The SI unit of irradiance is the watt per square metre (symbol W⋅m−2 or W/m2). The CGS unit erg per square centimetre per second (erg⋅cm−2⋅s−1)...
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    millimetre to one cubic metre) Square foot Therm, a unit of natural gas approximately equal to 100 cubic feet Cubic metre per second IEEE Standard Letter...
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    the SI system of units, the standard unit of acceleration is metres per second squared (m/s2). Other units include the cgs gal (sometimes known as a...
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  • example, the SI unit of velocity is the metre per second, m⋅s−1; of acceleration is the metre per second squared, m⋅s−2; etc. For example the newton (N)...
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    {\displaystyle f} may be in metres, ω {\displaystyle \omega } in radians per second, and g {\displaystyle g} in metres per second-squared. If we write F {\displaystyle...
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    metres per second-squared, so f ω 2 ≈ 4.905 {\displaystyle f\omega ^{2}\approx 4.905} meters per second-squared. Equivalently, as 1 radian per second...
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    with a 10% probability of exceedance in 50 years, measured in Metre per second squared. For parts of the US, the National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project...
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  • per square metre per metre (W·m−3)—commonly the watt per square metre per nanometre (W·m−2·nm−1). The CGS unit erg per square centimeter per second (erg·cm−2·s−1)...
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    force per unit mass due to gravity at the Earth's surface and is the standard gravity (symbol: gn), defined as 9.80665 metres per second squared, or equivalently...
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