metres per second squared
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SI unit of acceleration
Key facts
- Unit system
- SI
- Unit of
- acceleration
- Symbol
- m/s
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Encyclopedic overview
The metre per second squared or metre per square second is the unit of acceleration in the International System of Units (SI). As a derived unit, it is composed from the SI base units of length, the metre, and of time, the second. Its symbol is written in several forms as m/s, m·s or m s, m/s, or less commonly, as (m/s)/s.
As acceleration, the unit is interpreted physically as change in velocity or speed per time interval, i.e. metre per second per second and is treated as a vector quantity.
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