Re: license plates...clever and inoffensive

[Phil and Judy Rose <pjrose@servtech.com>]

>Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 02:38:54 -0700
>From: "Frank J. Bauer" <frankbauer@thevine.net>
>Subject: Re: license plates...clever and inoffensive
>
>At 04:36 AM 10/16/98 -0400, Huw Powell wrote:
>>> > >stands for DX/DT -- the rate of change of position over time, or SPEED.
>>> > in that case, make mine dxdt2!
>>isn't it D2XDT2 or DX2/D2T ?  boy, you don't that calculus often IRL, do
>>you?
>
>acceleration is the rate of change of speed of time, hence dx/dt**2.
>take out the non-dmv characters and you have dxdt2.
>
>frank

Nope. Huw is right.  Acceleration is the derivative of the velocity with
respect to time:

d/dt(dx/dt) = d^2x/dt^2, or D2XDT2

Phil R.

P.S. If I ever get a vanity plate, that's the one I'm gonna go for.

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