Four-acceleration is a concept from the framework of special relativity and general relativity that describes the change in four-velocity of an object with respect to proper time. It serves as a relativistic generalization of classical acceleration. ### Definition: Four-acceleration, denoted often as \( A^\mu \), is defined as the derivative of the four-velocity \( U^\mu \) with respect to the proper time \( \tau \).
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