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Non-Constant Acceleration?
IF the acceleration-time graph was a curve and not a horizontal straight line IT would have slope/s. These slopes would represent the rate of change of acceleration, another graph could be drawn - is there a NAME for this function of motion?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The name of that is "Jerk", which is just the derivative of acceleration. A simple example of Jerk would be simple harmonic motion, where Jerk would be the 3rd derivative of Position, 2nd derivative of Velocity, or 1st derivative of acceleration.
So if position = sin(x), velocity would = cos(x), acceleration would = -sin(x), and jerk would = -cos(x).