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Key facts
- Common symbols
- j , j , ȷ →
- In si base units
- m · s , m / s
- Dimension
- L T
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Encyclopedic overview
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 (SI units) or standard gravities per second(g0/s).
Expressions
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “jerk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.