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Old 22-May-2007, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Fazor View Post
My question is this; if acceleration is the same, then doesn't the force acting upon the body have to scale based on the object's mass? Doesn't there need to be more force in order for a 10kg object to be accelerated the same speed as is needed to accelerate a 1kg object?
Yes, and that force is what we usually term the weight. And it is proportional to mass, the equivalence principle basically.
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