Comment on Physicists vs Normal People

• Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • nBodyProblem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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    • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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      • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        So, you didn’t realise that during the unit test?

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