What does the gravity unit m/s^2 stand for?

Question

In this website, gravity is measured in m/s^2.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/index.html
Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

meters per seconds squared

Answer 2

It stands for meters per second squared (or meters per second per second), a unit of acceleration. Basically, it's a measure of change in velocity/speed (which can be measured in meters per second [or miles per hour or anything that's a distance over a time]). So what, say, 1 m/s^2 means is that the speed of an object will change by one meter per second every second. So, starting with no speed, after one second an object would have a speed of 1 m/s, after two seconds 2 m/s, ater three seconds 3 m/s, and so on.

Answer 3

It is a Gravity unit, but more specifically it is the Acceleration due to Gravity.

It stands for meters per second squared. On Earth it is approximately 9.81 meters/ second ^ 2. Or as my Physics teacher says 9.81 meters per second per second. Every second your velocity increases by 9.81 meters per second.

The mathematical notation for this value is "g"

Answer 4

This is the unit of accleration. In Newton's Law,
F = m a, where a= accleration. On earth, the accleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/sec^2, which roughly means that whatever the velocity of a free-falling object was at t seconds, it will be 9.8 m/sec more at t+1 seconds.

Answer 5

This is a unit of acceleration. Another way of looking at it is I am increasing my velocity by, say, 12 meters per second every second i.e meters per second squared.

Answer 6

that means meters per second per second (kind of confusing) but meters per second is already a unit of accelleration, so this just simply means that for every second that you fall (or travel horizontally), you speed up X meters/second (on earth, it's 9.81 m/s^2).

Answer 7

"Meters divided by seconds squared" which is the standard metric unit for acceleration.

Answer 8

acceleration