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A ball is pulled toward your cursor: the further away the cursor, the longer the ball accelerates and the faster it is moving when it arrives. This is a hands-on picture of Newton's second law — a constant force produces a constant acceleration, and acceleration is the rate at which velocity changes, not the velocity itself.
Read the full theory: How does a ball accelerate toward a target? →
Acceleration is how fast velocity changes. Aim a constant acceleration at a target and the ball speeds up, overshoots and loops back — here is why.
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In free fall every object accelerates at g ≈ 9.81 m/s², whatever its mass. Equations, gravity on other worlds, and how air resistance sets terminal velocity.
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A bouncing ball loses speed at each impact, keeping a fraction e (restitution). Every bounce reaches e² of the last height — the maths, with a simulation.
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