Figure 2.17 Car accelerating from rest to 60 mph or 27 m/s. it. The unit ... In other words: 1 newton 5 1kilogram-meter/second2 EXAMPLE2.1 An airplane with a mass of 2,000 kilograms is observed to be accelerating at a rate of 4 m/s2. What is ... Recall that any freely falling body has an acceleration equal to g (9.8 m/s g 2).