• Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Acceleration in physics terms just means a change in velocity. Velocity is speed in a given direction

    They definitely know that, given that they know that change in acceleration is called jerk

    • billwashere@lemmy.world
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      And I had no idea what the fourth derivative was called so I had to look it up. It’s called snap or jounce.

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        23 hours ago

        And fifth/sixth derivatives are crackle and pop because some physicists thought it would be funny to have it be “snap crackle and pop”

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        23 hours ago

        I remember when my calculus professor offhand mentioned these and jerk. He had a really dry sense of humor, so I didn’t realize that he wasn’t joking with us (the class) until like two semesters later.

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            If I remember right, it wasn’t on any test. Those tests were all problem solving, and none of the problems had derivatives deeper than acceleration. It was awhile ago though, I could be misremembering