Thread: The Integral of Position

In Calculus I've worked with position, velocity, acceleration, and sometimes jerk, moving from one to another using differentiation and integration. However, one thing I have always wondered about yet never asked is, What is the integral of position? Does this quantity have any meaning? Who's rate of change is position? If anyone could help me it would be much appreciated.


~xander

Originally Posted by Xander314

In Calculus I've worked with position, velocity, acceleration, and sometimes jerk, moving from one to another using differentiation and integration. However, one thing I have always wondered about yet never asked is, What is the integral of position? Does this quantity have any meaning? Who's rate of change is position? If anyone could help me it would be much appreciated.


~xander

As far as Physics is concerned there is nothing that is defined as the time integral of the position. However just by looking at the units we can speculate that this has something to do with impulse: I/m has the same units as your quantity.

-Dan