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You're conflating coordinate and proper acceleration.
by BDPW 7mo ago
You're conflating coordinate and proper acceleration.
- marcus_holmes 7mo agoI don't think I understand the difference. I have always been told that acceleration is change in velocity over time. Is that wrong? Are there other types of acceleration?
- magicalhippo 7mo ago> I have always been told that acceleration is change in velocity over time. Is that wrong? Not per se, but it's more complicated when relativity gets involved. Wikipedia has some decent starting points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_velocity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_velocity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_acceleration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_acceleration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-acceleration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-acceleration