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but I'm sure you guys have some idea of why we are interested in that.
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Does anybody know why so much time is spent on that? Yes?
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Pardon me?
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Right.
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The most famous example is
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that when things fall near the surface of the Earth,
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they all have the same acceleration,
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and the acceleration that's common is called g,
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and that's 9.8 m/s^(2).
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So that's a very typical problem.
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When you're falling to the surface of the Earth,
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you are describing a problem of constant acceleration.