Re:Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher d...
by zardo on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @10:01AM
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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 microseconds.
Re:Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher d...
by shagie on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @10:11AM
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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.
Re:Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher d...
by sokoloff on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @12:16PM
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That’s 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.
Re:Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher d...
by tomek_ycomb on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @02:54PM
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It's nature, it's continuous at small enough scales.
But, checkout Zeno's paradox for more on your philosophical questions
Figure 4-3 in https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/lvfea-AS506-Apollo1... shows this for Apollo 11.