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Noun
proper acceleration (plural proper accelerations)
- (physics) The acceleration felt by an object, as opposed to the coordinate acceleration. For example the acceleration of an object at the surface of the Earth is 9.81 m/s2 upwards, but has no coordinate acceleration. The proper acceleration of an object is Lorentz invariant.
References
- Edwin F. Taylor & John Archibald Wheeler (1966 1st ed. only) Spacetime Physics (W.H. Freeman, San Francisco) →ISBN, Chapter 1 Exercise 51 page 97-98: "Clock paradox III" (pdf).