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[–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I can't even comprehend what something beyond jerk means in reality or how to even produce it by physical means

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Well these are higher order derivatives, so they do have physical meaning but the latter ones are increasingly abstract and subtle from our normal earthly perspective.

    If you think of a stable and perfectly circular orbit, that's a steady and constant acceleration. Then if you thrust to make it elliptical, you're changing the acceleration which can be measured as jerk. But then if that thrust itself is variable, you can measure its changes as snap. And then of course the rate of how much you change that is crackle, and so on.

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