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proper acceleration

noun

Definitions

  1. The acceleration felt by an object, as opposed to the coordinate acceleration. For…

    The acceleration felt by an object, as opposed to the coordinate acceleration. For example the acceleration of an object at the surface of the Earth is 9.81 m/s² upwards, but has no coordinate acceleration. The proper acceleration of an object is Lorentz invariant.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for proper acceleration. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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