Since Becca has already created a program to calculate her instantaneous speed at a given point on the track by finding the derivative of the mathematical model to her GPS position data, she could the...Since Becca has already created a program to calculate her instantaneous speed at a given point on the track by finding the derivative of the mathematical model to her GPS position data, she could then take the derivative of that function, the second derivative, to find her instantaneous acceleration at the same point in the race.
