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Offline cashem'up

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physics help???
« on: March 10, 2010, 05:03:04 pm »
Simplified newtons 2nd law states that force is proportional to acceleration at constant mass but then wont this equation have a constant???
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Re: physics help???
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2010, 05:18:02 pm »
constant does not matter as long as the equation is homogeneous.
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Re: physics help???
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2010, 05:22:50 pm »
F=ma

the mass is the constant
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