Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Derivatives of position - (nf) Message-ID: <2437@fortune.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 07:04:33 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2437 Posted: Sun Feb 5 07:04:33 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 08:13:52 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 16 #R:sri-arpa:-1610100:fortune:8600010:000:403 fortune!rpw3 Feb 5 01:58:00 1984 The third derivative of position with respect to time is also called "jolt" (as well as "jerk"), at least in my college physics class. (I also remember an old sf-novel that spoke of "joltmeters swinging over" at rocket liftoff...) Rob Warnock UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphins Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065