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Using that value for the initial speed and a time of 36 seconds gives an acceleration of 0.75 meters per second per second.—WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023 When the field was slowly ramped down, the anti-hydrogen atoms drifted down like maple leaves in October and at the same rate of downward acceleration, or g force, as regular atoms: about 32 feet per second per second.—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023 So, an acceleration of 0 meters per second per second means that the velocity won't change.—Rhett Allain, Wired, 11 Feb. 2022 Milgrom noticed that in diffuse systems like this, Newton’s laws begin to falter — and make untrustworthy predictions — whenever gravitational acceleration dips below a specific threshold, 10-10 meters per second per second, 100 billion times weaker than the force of gravity felt on Earth.—Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2015
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