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A graph illustrating uniformly accelerated motion, showing a right triangle with a slanted hypotenuse representing increasing velocity over time. The base is labeled t for time, the height is labeled v equals at for velocity, and the shaded area inside the triangle is labeled s equals at squared divided by 2 for distance traveled.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Abu’l-Barakat al-Baghdadi
Arab physician and philosopher [1080?–1164/1165?]
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Jean Buridan
French philosopher and scientist
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev.
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician
De Motu Animalium by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Italian physiologist and physicist

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