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Relative and absolute acceleration

Consider a particular particle which has a variable absolute velocity . The absolute acceleration of the particle, in view of Eq. (106), can be expressed as

If we make use of the relation

we can write Eq. (108) in the form

But, using Eq. (106) we see that

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Steve Baum
Mon Dec 1 08:50:29 CST 1997