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What is the relationship between acceleration and mass of the body?
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How does a plane withstand severe turbulence?
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What is the effect of over and under stabilization on a projectile?
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What is an equilibrium yaw?
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What is the relationship between force and distance?
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Is the term rolling the same as aircraft banking?
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What is the name of the instrument that tells a pilot what angle he is at in the air, keeping him level?
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What is an incline orbit?
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State Kepler's law of motion and discuss this law on the basis of the theory of orbits.
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What is injection error due to launching of satellite?
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