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Qualification => Subject Doubts => GCE AS & A2 Level => Sciences => Topic started by: cashem'up on March 10, 2010, 05:03:04 pm

Title: physics help???
Post by: cashem'up 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???

Title: Re: physics help???
Post by: tmisterr on March 10, 2010, 05:18:02 pm

constant does not matter as long as the equation is homogeneous.

Title: Re: physics help???
Post by: Saladin on March 10, 2010, 05:22:50 pm

F=ma

the mass is the constant