Author Question: Formula for acceleration from velocity and displacement? (Read 11241 times)

clippers!

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It seems as if I've forgotten this formula (we must have found it in my physics class though).  I have a starting acceleration, a final acceleration, a displacement, but no time.  I need to find an acceleration.. What's the equation?



 

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