Acceleration

Resources

• Aerospace
  • John Paul Atapp
    • John Stapp. National Aviation Hall of Fame.
    • John Stapp. International Space Hall of Fame. New Mexico Museum of Space History.
    • Human Exposures to Linear Deceleration. John Paul Stapp.USAF Technical Reports. Issue 5915 (1951).
    • Criteria for Crash Protection in Armed Forces Ground Vehicles. John Paul Stapp & Sidney T. Lewis.Holloman Air Development Center Technical Note (1956).
    • For your moments of inertia from levity to gravity: A treatise celebrating your right to laugh. John Paul Stapp. Alamogordo, New Mexico: Self-Published (1992).
    • One Track Mind: Retired colonel remembers rocket-sled ride of his life. Timothy S. Bailey.Airman. Vol. 42 No. 4 (April 1998): 44–48.
  • Edward A. Murphy
    • The Fastest Man on Earth: Why Everything You Know About Murphy's Law is Wrong. Nick T. Spark.Annals of Improbable Research (AIR). Vol. 9 No. 5 (September/October 2003): 4–26.
    • A History of Murphy's Law (paid link). Nick T. Spark. Los Angeles: Periscope Film (2006).
  • Ejection Site. Kevin Coyne.
• Amusement parks
  • Amusement Ride Safety: G-Forces. International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA).
  • Committee F24 on Amusement Rides and Devices. American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).
  • Institue for Centrifugal Research (ICR). Gravity is a mistake. We work hard to correct it.
• Automotive
  • 2017 Tesla Model S P100D First Test: A New Record: 0–60 mph in 2.28 Seconds! Motor Trend
  • Could a seat belt have saved Diana? CNN (5 September 1997).
  • EI Consultants, formerly The Engineering Institute, formerly Renfroe Engineering. Forensic investigations and accident reconstruction. Provided analysis to CNN in the Princess Diana Accident.
  • Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Crash Testing & Highway Safety
  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA)
• Cycling
  • Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute
• Galileo Galilei
  • Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze. Galileo Galilei (1638).
  • Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences. Galileo Galilei. Translated from the Italian and Latin into English by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio. New York: Macmillan (1914).
• Medicine
  • Acceleration perturbations of daily living. A comparison to 'whiplash'. Allen, M.E.; I. Weir-Jones; et al.Spine. Vol. 19 No. 11 (1 June 1994): 1285–1290.
  • The Physics Factbook
    • Acceleration Perturbations of Everyday Living. Gary Louie, Michelle Fung, Jenny Hua, and Stephanie Ma (2005)
    • More Acceleration Perturbations of Daily Living. James Kim and Maté Nagy (2006)
  • Reduction of Blast Induced Head Acceleration in the Field of Anti-Personnel Mine Clearance. A. Makris, J. Nerenberg, J.P. Dionne, C. R. Bass, and C. Chichester. Fort Belvoir, Virginia: Army Communications Electronics Command, Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (2006).
• MEMS accelerometer
  • MEMS Accelerometers. Analog Devices.
  • Little Machines That are Making it Big. David Bishop, Peter Gammel, C. Randy Giles.Physics Today. Vol. 54 No. 10 (2001): 38–44.
  • Microelectromechanical Systems Laboratory. Carnegie Mellon University.
• Pioneer anomaly
  • Indication, from Pioneer 10/11, Galileo, and Ulysses Data, of an Apparent Anomalous, Weak, Long-Range Acceleration. John D. Anderson, Philip A. Laing, Eunice L. Lau, Anthony S. Liu, Michael Martin Nieto, and Slava G. Turyshev.Physical Review Letters. Vol. 81 No. 14 (1998): 2858–2861.
  • Study of the anomalous acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11. John D. Anderson, Philip A. Laing, Eunice L. Lau, Anthony S. Liu, Michael Martin Nieto, and Slava G. Turyshev.Physical Review D. Vol. 65 No. 8 (2002): 082004–082003.
  • The Pioneer Anomaly: The Data, its Meaning, and a Future Test. Michael Martin Nieto, Slava G. Turyshev and John D. Anderson.American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings. Vol. 758 (2005): 113.Open access copy at arXiv.org.
  • High precision thermal modeling of complex systems with application to the flyby and Pioneer anomaly. Benny Rievers and Claus Lämmerzahl.Annalen der Physik. Vol. 523 No. 6 (2011): 439–449.
• Small accelerations
  • Laboratory Test of Newton's Second Law for Small Accelerations. J.H. Gundlach, S. Schlamminger, C.D. Spitzer, K.Y. Choi, B. A. Woodahl, J.J. Coy, and E. Fischbach.Physical Review Letters. Vol. 98 No. 15 (13 April 2007): 150801.