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Symbols of Acceleration

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I WISH to direct the attention of the reviewer of the “New Works on Mechanics,” in No. 107 of NATURE, to the following statements which he makes while speaking of Wernicke's book:— “The symbol j is here and throughout the work used to denote an acceleration; for example j x (sic) is the acceleration parallel to the axis of x. This notation (unfamiliar to English readers) has obvious advantages when the more appropriate language of the differential calculus cannot be employed.”

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MUIR, T. Symbols of Acceleration. Nature 5, 102–103 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/005102c0

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