proper acceleration (English, noun)
expansion: proper acceleration (plural proper accelerations)
Senses:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The acceleration felt by an object, as opposed to the coordinate acceleration. For example the acceleration of an object at the surface of the Earth is 9.81 m/s² upwards, but has no coordinate acceleration. The proper acceleration of an object is Lorentz invariant.
Forms:
form: proper accelerations
tags: plural