Pixels vs Meters vs Object Coordinates

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

When setting gravity the unit is m/s^2

When getting linear velocity the value returned is in px/s 

I ran this code to get 2 y-position values and 2 y-velocity values.

physics.setGravity(0,10) projectile = display.newImageRect(layers.content, "images/circle.png", 20, 20 ) projectile.anchorY = 1 projectile.x = centerX - 200 projectile.y = 100 physics.addBody( projectile, "dynamic") local function getValues() local vx, vy = projectile:getLinearVelocity() if projectile.y \< 600 then print("Position Y = " .. projectile.y .. " -- Velocity Y = " .. vy) end end Runtime:addEventListener("enterFrame", getValues)

I then used the UARM motion formula (V2^2 - V1^2) / 2(y-displacement) = acceleration 

to get the acceleration

I got 294.44 px/s^2 which is 0.0779 m/s^2 not 10 m/s^2

I figured this is because the y-displacement isn’t the actual number of pixels covered but rather the scaled content area.

So then I converted 10 m/s^2 to px/s^2 and got 3779.5 px/s^2 then used that to get the y-displacement in pixels (V2^2 - V1^2) / 2(acceleration) = y-displacement and got the y-displacement to be 8.589 pixels which makes no sense! 

Can someone please me where I went wrong?

#2

To avoid complicating things by using the object coordinates I just tried something much simpler.

I made the object free fall under the effect of only gravity, then got 2 y-velocity values: 0 px/s and 80 px/s and the time taken to reach the second velocity value being 425.8 milliseconds which is 0.4258 seconds.

Doing ( 80 - 0 ) / 0.4258 gives an acceleration value of 187.88 px/s^2 which is 0.0497 m/s^2 ,not 10 m/s^2 !