Everything about Acceleration
Rate of change of velocity
In physics, acceleration is a measure of how fast and in what direction an object's speed and direction of motion are changing. It is defined as the rate of change of the velocity. Like velocity, acceleration has a magnitude and a direction, making it a vector quantity. The SI unit for acceleration is metre per second squared. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: AccelerationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Efficient Acceleration of Deep Learning Inference on Resource-Constrained Edge Devices: A ReviewInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: My father's dragonThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Acceleration and Trapping of Particles by Radiation PressureCited 4,465 times
- Go sideways: Circular motionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Centripetal forceA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
Noun The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
Noun The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
Noun The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Acceleration and Trapping of Particles by Radiation Pressure
Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model
Self-Organizing Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimizer With Time-Varying Acceleration Coefficients
The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration
Convergence acceleration of iterative sequences. the case of scf iteration
The acceleration of cosmic rays in shock fronts - I
SOAPnuke: a MapReduce acceleration-supported software for integrated quality control and preprocessing of high-throughput sequencing data
Modified gravity with negative and positive powers of curvature: Unification of inflation and cosmic acceleration
🆕 Influential since 2022
Efficient Acceleration of Deep Learning Inference on Resource-Constrained Edge Devices: A Review
Acceleration of radiative recombination for efficient perovskite LEDs
Acceleration of cement hydration – A review of the working mechanisms, effects on setting time, and compressive strength development of accelerating admixtures
AWQ: Activation-aware Weight Quantization for On-Device LLM Compression and Acceleration
Epigenetic-based age acceleration in a representative sample of older Americans: Associations with aging-related morbidity and mortality
📚 Books worth reading
My father's dragonRuth S. Gannett · 1948
HatchetGary Paulsen · 1986
Frog and Toad Are FriendsArnold Lobel · 1920
Make Way for DucklingsRobert McCloskey, David Crommett · 1941
Frog and Toad All YearArnold Lobel · 1976
The Giving TreeShel Silverstein, Kjell Hill Silverstein · 1963
FrederickLeo Lionni · 1963
Mouse SoupArnold Lobel · 1977
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