Acceleration Quantity and Units

Acceleration is a SI derived quantity. Definitions are provided in namespace acceleration. The base quantity defines a derived quantity type MetrePerSquareSecondClass, and a Variable Acceleration.

The Dimension of Acceleration is $(1, 0, -2, 0, 0, 0, 0)$ .

Acceleration defines the following Units:

MetrePerSquareSecond (composed)
Gal
StandardAccelerationOfFreeFall

The default unit is MetrePerSquareSecond (m s^-2). The default name in the base quantity is `acceleration', and the default symbol is `a'. The derived quantity does not overwrite these values.

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