Yank (physics) - Relation To Other Physical Quantities

Relation To Other Physical Quantities

Newton's second law of motion says that:

where p is momentum, so if we combine the above two equations:

where is mass and v is velocity. If the mass isn't changing over time (i.e. it's constant), then:

which can also be written as:

where j is jerk.

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