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Difference between metres per seconds

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wyzard:

--- Quote from: JKFlacka on January 12, 2017, 04:12:04 pm ---I am rather confused on the differences between:

m/s-2 and m/s2

and

m/s-1 and m/s

Thank you :D

--- End quote ---

The trick behind understanding them is the physical units can be treated as an algebraic constant. Hence is exactly the same as .

The latter is preferred in more advanced physics as it makes the expression of more complicated units neater; like Newton's gravitational constant G with unit of which looks a lot tidier than

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