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I imagine if you zoom in far enough on those points you have the acceleration continuously changing as pressure slowly builds in the engines over several micros

• shagie 2y ago
  I was thinking more of the instant you shut off engines and disconnect 130,000 kg of mass of stage one. There is an interesting Δa/Δt while fuel is consumed and mass changes. There are discontinuities to the graph when engines are shut down and stages decoupled.
  • sokoloff 2y ago
    That’s the essence of a legitimate question: over small enough time periods (as the bolts explode over a non-zero period of time), is it continuous or discontinuous? Over a macro scale, it’s discontinuous, of course.
    • tomek_ycomb 2y ago
      It's nature, it's continuous at small enough scales. But, checkout Zeno's paradox for more on your philosophical questions