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The timeline in this schematic diagram extends from the Big Bang/inflation era 13.8 billion years ago to the present cosmological time. Observations show that the expansion of the universe is accelerating , such that the velocity at which a distant galaxy recedes from the observer is continuously increasing with time.
The true acceleration at time t is found in the limit as time interval Δt → 0 of Δv/Δt. An object's average acceleration over a period of time is its change in velocity, , divided by the duration of the period, .
The scale factor is a function of time and is conventionally set to be = at the present time. Because the universe is expanding, a {\displaystyle a} is smaller in the past and larger in the future. Extrapolating back in time with certain cosmological models will yield a moment when the scale factor was zero; our current understanding of ...
At a constant acceleration of 1 g, a rocket could travel the diameter of our galaxy in about 12 years ship time, and about 113,000 years planetary time. If the last half of the trip involves deceleration at 1 g , the trip would take about 24 years.
Here our object first accelerates upward for a time period of 2*c/α on traveler clocks, where c is lightspeed and α is the (red) proper acceleration's magnitude. This first leg takes about 2 years if the acceleration's magnitude is about 1-gee.
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Jerk (also known as Jolt) is the rate of change of an object's acceleration over time. It is a vector quantity (having both magnitude and direction). Jerk is most commonly denoted by the symbol j and expressed in m/s 3 ( SI units ) or standard gravities per second ( g 0 /s).
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