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Radians in AP Physics 1

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Radians are a unit of measurement for angles, where one radian is equal to the angle subtended at the center of a circle by an arc that is equal in length to the radius of the circle. In other words, radians measure how much of a full circle an angle covers.

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Topic 7: Unit 7 Overview: Torque and Rotational Motion

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