acceleration

Summary

acceleration ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,255 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• acceleration is credited with the discovery of Pierre Varignon^[2].
• acceleration followed velocity^[3].
• acceleration was followed by jerk^[4].
• acceleration is a type of physical quantity^[5].
• acceleration is a type of ISQ derived quantity^[6].
• acceleration is a type of vector quantity^[7].
• acceleration's Commons category is recorded as Acceleration^[8].
• acceleration's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Acceleration^[9].
• acceleration's described by source is recorded as ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time^[10].
• acceleration's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[11].
• acceleration's described by source is recorded as ISO 80000-3:2019 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time^[12].
• acceleration's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[13].
• acceleration's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1^[14].
• acceleration's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/acceleration^[15].
• acceleration's different from is recorded as acceleration^[16].
• acceleration's disjoint union of is recorded as list of values as qualifiers^[17].
• acceleration's permanent duplicated item is recorded as acceleration^[18].
• acceleration's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have^[19].
• acceleration's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[20].
• acceleration's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[21].
• acceleration's recommended unit of measurement is recorded as metres per second squared^[22].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include physical quantity^[5], ISQ derived quantity^[6], and vector quantity^[7].

Influence

Things named for acceleration include Acela^[23], a train service^[24], in United States^[25], founded in 2000^[26] and Gas Gas^[27], a motorcycle manufacturer^[28], in Spain^[29], founded in 1985^[30], headquartered in Salt^[31].

Why It Matters

acceleration ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,255 views/month).^[1] acceleration has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[32] acceleration is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[33]

Entities named for acceleration include Acela^[23], a train service^[24], in United States^[25], founded in 2000^[26] and Gas Gas^[27], a motorcycle manufacturer^[28], in Spain^[29], founded in 1985^[30], headquartered in Salt^[31].