Average Acceleration?

Some physics about average acceleration?

• Hello I have some problem with finding the average acceleration for a man who is jumping on the moon, i know the data i need to find the average acceleration, but dont know how to, the data is t / s - 0.26 0.4 0.51 0.73 0.86 0.98 1.14 v / m/s - 0.72 0.5 0.26 -0.15 -0.30 -0.47 -0.67 I have tried to make a quartic regression, which formula was -4.819x^4 + 13.82x^3 + -13.31x^2 + 3.283x + .5476 but i dont know the next step, I will be really happy if someone out there would take the time to help me with this one :)

• Answer:

  The answer is much easier than you are making it. Average acceleration is just change in velocity over change in time. I guess those numbers are a series of velocities and times. (v_final - v_initial) / (t_final - t_initial) = average acceleration If you wanted instantaneous acceleration you might use a regression.