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Old 10th March 2017, 08:24   #8
Avulon
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Originally Posted by another_clean_sheet View Post
To be pedantic is it not deacceleration that triggers the airbag? Acceleration will not trigger it.
Nearly but not quite, it's deceleration (the latin root is celero, which gives us celerate )

'negative acceleration' is grammatically an oxymoron (so not correct to say)....

confusion might arise because acceleration could be described mathematically as

1 ft/s/s (one foot per second per second)

and deceleration as

-1 foot/s/s (minus one foot per second per second) - looks like 'negative acceleration' does it not?

n.b - I know the foot isn't the official ISO unit of distance - but I thought that the majority here would understand imperial measurements better than metric...




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