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Shock (Mechanics)In mechanics, a shock is a sudden acceleration or deceleration caused, for example, by impact or explosion. Shock is measured in the same units as acceleration, i.e. metre per second squared. (Note: Shock wave is sometimes abbreviated as shock when the context is clear.) Sometimes, for convenience, the magnitude of a shock is stated as a multiple of the standard acceleration due to free fall in the Earth's gravity, a quantity with the symbol g having the value 9.80665 m·s-2. Thus a shock of "2g" is equivalent to about 19.6 m/s2. The italic symbol g used above must not be confused with the upright symbol g meaning gram. A variety of shock absorbers are used to reduce the strength of shocks in machinery.
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