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Re: Kinematics - a vs. t graphs



On 09/16/2003 11:55 AM, I wrote:
>>
>> You cannot reliably infer the acceleration from samples
>> of the x and t coordinates, not without some nontrivial
>> regularization assumptions.


On 09/17/2003 07:28 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
>
> Huh? Resolution only need exceed the acceleration limited by the
> force and mass to the degree of accuracy desired.

How do we know that? How sure are we of that?

Given a certain mass and a certain max |force|, how
does the accuracy of the estimated acceleration scale
with the resolution of the position data?