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The velocity of a body falling freely to Earth increases with time, i.e. the velocity of fall depends on the time. The pressure of a gas maintained at a constant temperature depends on its volume. The periodic time of a simple pendulum depends on its length. Such dependencies between observed quantities are frequently encountered in physics and engineering and they lead to the formulation of natural laws.
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Weltner, K., John, S., Weber, W.J., Schuster, P., Grosjean , J. (2014). Functions. In: Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54124-7_3
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