2011-04-10, 01:07 AM
Devil's Sunrise Wrote:This is a whole other question, because you're now taking a mathematical aspect and assuming it makes sense to apply it in a physical situation as a "description" of the system. As for your question, the infinite derivative of the position x(t) does not make sense and is not used in modern physics - and no, as the infinite derivative is not defined, we cannot do so.
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You can keep taking derivatives forever, and when you finally do reach the infinith derivative, it can be whatever you want. Anything continuous on C^(inf) has such a derivative, but since it's continuous the derivative is not infinite. And anything past C^(3) isn't really useful, but special functions that can be described by infinite power series (trig, trig h, bessel.... most others) will have a infinith derivative.

