On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 9:39 PM, leaking pen <[email protected]> wrote:
> are crackle and pop really higher order derivatives of motion, or are you > having some fun there? > Did you read the reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jounce The notation [image: \vec s] (used in [2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jounce#cite_note-MVisser1-2>) is not to be confused with the displacement vector<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement_vector> commonly denoted similarly. Currently, there are no well-accepted designations for the derivatives of jounce. The fourth, fifth and sixth derivatives of position as a function of time are "sometimes somewhat facetiously"[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jounce#cite_note-MVisser1-2> [3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jounce#cite_note-PhysicsFAQ-3>referred to as "Snap", "Crackle", and "Pop"<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap,_Crackle,_and_Pop> respectively.
