Acceleration is speed derivative¶
Acceleration describes how quickly speed changes with time.
Notes:
- It still holds for special relativity and general relativity cases, but general relativity requires
4-velocity and 4-acceleration instead of speed and acceleration. See Wikipedia – Acceleration (special relativity) for reference.
Links:
- Symbol:
t- Latex:
\(t\)
- Dimension:
time
- acceleration¶
accelerationof the body as a function of time.
- Symbol:
a(t)- Latex:
\(a{\left(t \right)}\)
- Dimension:
acceleration
- Symbol:
v(t)- Latex:
\(v{\left(t \right)}\)
- Dimension:
velocity
- definition¶
a(t) = Derivative(v(t), t)- Latex:
- \[a{\left(t \right)} = \frac{d}{d t} v{\left(t \right)}\]