I thought about talking about derivatives but wanted to avoid to mention to many unexplained words, but yes, derivatives are exactly the way you should be thinking about this.
In physics/mechanical engineering they have even names for these derivatives when we talk about motion (in this order):
position
velocity
acceleration
jerk
snap
crackle
pop
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I thought about talking about derivatives but wanted to avoid to mention to many unexplained words, but yes, derivatives are exactly the way you should be thinking about this.
In physics/mechanical engineering they have even names for these derivatives when we talk about motion (in this order):
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_%28physics%29