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Re:Tesla Roadster by dmead on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:26AM (#15719862)
acceleration rates. acceleration speeds is like, kinda sort grammatically incorrect.
Re:Tesla Roadster by dwaltrip on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:40AM (#15719934)
It's grammatically correct, but conceptually incorrect (sorry, it's always fun to correct a correction :)
Re:Tesla Roadster by grkvlt on Friday November 17, 2017 @12:34PM (#15724032)
They're both incorrect, I think. Acceleration rate would be the rate of change of the rate of change of speed, or what is known as 'jerk' in engineering. I guess that would be the time that it takes to go from 0 to the '0-60 in 1.8s' acceleration? The correct term is simply 'acceleration' on its own.
Re:Tesla Roadster by dmead on Saturday November 18, 2017 @06:53PM (#15731389)
alls i'm saying is that if anyone wrote "acceleration speed" on reports in high school physics class they'd get points off. acceleration is a kind of rate.