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AP Physics C/Mechanics Freely Falling Objects
In physics, mass (from Ancient Greek:μᾶζα) commonly refers to any of three properties of matter, which have been shown experimentally to be equivalent: inertial mass, active gravitational mass and passive gravitational mass. In everyday usage, mass is often taken to mean weight, but in scientific use, they refer to different properties.The inertial mass of an object determines its acceleration in the presence of an applied force. According to Isaac Newton's second law of motion, if a body of mass m is subjected to a force F, its acceleration a is given by F/m.In normal situations, the weight of an object is proportional to its mass, which usually makes it unproblematic to use the same unit for both concepts. However, the distinction between mass and weight becomes important for measurements with a precision better than a few percent (because of slight differences in the strength of the Earth's gravitational field at different places), and for places far from the surface of the Earth, such as in space or on other planets.
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Post by Arjun Srivatsa on January 12, 2015
For Extra Example one, wouldn't we have to add the displacement at v=0 to the original height to find the maximum height?
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Post by Timothy Holmes on November 14, 2014
Great Lectures!