This page lists examples of the acceleration occurring in various situations. They are grouped by orders of magnitude.
| Factor [m/s2] | Multiple | Reference frame | Value | [g]< | -- 9.82 m/s² used --> | Item |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| inertial | 0 m/s2 | 0 g | The gyro rotors in Gravity Probe B and the free-floating proof masses in the TRIAD I navigation satellite[1] | |||
| inertial | ≈ 0 m/s2 | ≈ 0 g | Weightless parabola in a reduced-gravity aircraft | |||
| lab | Smallest acceleration in a scientific experiment[2] | |||||
| Solar system | Acceleration of Earth toward the sun due to sun's gravitational attraction | |||||
| lab | 0.25 m/s2 | 0.026 g | Train acceleration for SJ X2 | |||
| inertial | 1.62 m/s2 | 0.1654 g | Standing on the Moon at its equator | |||
| lab | 4.3 m/s2 | 0.44 g | Car acceleration 0–100 km/h in 6.4 s with a Saab 9-5 Hirsch | |||
| inertial | 1 g | Standard gravity, the gravity acceleration on Earth at sea level standard | ||||
| 101 | 1 dam/s2 | inertial | 11.2 m/s2 | 1.14 g | Saturn V Moon rocket just after launch | |
| inertial | 15.2 m/s2 | 1.55 g | Bugatti Veyron from 0 to in (the net acceleration vector including gravitational acceleration is directed 40 degrees from horizontal) | |||
| inertial | 29 m/s2 | 3 g | Space Shuttle, maximum during launch and reentry | |||
| inertial | 3 g | Sustainable for > 25 seconds, for a human | ||||
| inertial | g | High-G roller coasters[3] | ||||
| lab? | 41 m/s2 | 4.2 g | Top Fuel drag racing world record of 4.4 s over 1/4 mile | |||
| inertial | Causes disorientation, dizziness and fainting in humans[4] | |||||
| lab? | 49+ m/s2 | 5+ g | Formula One car, maximum under heavy braking | |||
| inertial? | 51 m/s2 | 5.2 g | Luge, maximum expected at the Whistler Sliding Centre | |||
| lab | Formula One car, peak lateral in turns[5] | |||||
| inertial | 59 m/s2 | 6 g | Parachutist peak during normal opening of parachute[6] | |||
| inertial | m/s2 | Standard, full aerobatics certified glider | ||||
| inertial | 70.6 m/s2 | 7.19 g | Apollo 16 on reentry[7] | |||
| inertial | 79 m/s2 | 8 g | F-16 aircraft pulling out of dive | |||
| inertial | 9 g | Maximum for a fit, trained person with G-suit to keep consciousness, avoiding G-LOC | ||||
| inertial | Typical maximum turn acceleration in an aerobatic plane or fighter jet[8] | |||||
| 1 hm/s2 | inertial | 147 m/s2< | --two valid digits--> | 15 g | Explosive seat ejection from aircraft | |
| 18 g | Physical damage in humans like broken capillaries | |||||
| 21.3 g | Peak acceleration experienced by cosmonauts during the Soyuz 18a abort[9] | |||||
| 34 g | Peak deceleration of the Stardust Sample Return Capsule on reentry to Earth[10] | |||||
| 46.2 g | Maximum acceleration a human has survived on a rocket sled | |||||
| > 50 g | Death or serious injury likely | |||||
| 982 m/s2 | 100 g | Sprint missile[11] | ||||
| 982 m/s2< | --two valid digits--> | 100 g | Automobile crash (100 km/h into wall)[12] | |||
| Brief human exposure survived in crash[13] | ||||||
| 100 g | Deadly limit for most humans | |||||
| 1 km/s2 | inertial ≈ lab | 157 g | Peak acceleration of fastest rocket sled run[14] | |||
| 1964 m/s2 | 200 g | 3.5" hard disc non-operating shock tolerance for 2 ms, weight 0.6 kg[15] | ||||
| 2098 m/s2 | 214 g | Highest recorded amount of g-force exposed and survived by a human (Peak deceleration experienced by Kenny Bräck in a crash at the 2003 Chevy 500)[16] [17] | ||||
| 2256 m/s2 | 230 g | Peak acceleration experience by the Galileo probe during descent into Jupiter's atmosphere[18] | ||||
| 2490 m/s2 | 254 g | Peak deceleration experienced by Jules Bianchi in crash of Marussia MR03, 2014 Japanese Grand Prix[19] | ||||
| 2946 m/s2< | --two valid digits--> | 300 g | Soccer ball struck by foot | |||
| 3200 m/s2< | --two valid digits--> | 320 g | A jumping human flea[20] | |||
| 3800 m/s2< | --two valid digits--> | 380 g | A jumping click beetle[21] | |||
| 4944 m/s2< | --two valid digits--> | 504 g | Clothes on washing machine, during dry spinning (46 cm drum / 1400 rpm) | |||
| 10 km/s2 | Deceleration of the head of a woodpecker[22] | |||||
| Space gun with a barrel length of and a muzzle velocity of, as proposed by Quicklaunch (assuming constant acceleration) | ||||||
| 29460 m/s2< | --two valid digits--> | 3000 g | Baseball struck by bat | |||
| Standard requirement for decelerative crashworthiness in certified flight recorders (such as a Boeing 737 'black box') | ||||||
| Shock capability of mechanical wrist watches[23] | ||||||
| Current Formula One engines, maximum piston acceleration (up to 10,000 g before rev limits)[24] | ||||||
| 100 km/s2 | A mantis shrimp punch[25] | |||||
| Rating of electronics built into military artillery shells[26] | ||||||
| Spore acceleration of the Pilobolus fungi[27] | ||||||
| 9×19mm Parabellum handgun bullet (average along the length of the barrel)[28] | ||||||
| 1 Mm/s2 | Closing jaws of a trap-jaw ant[29] | |||||
| 9×19mm Parabellum handgun bullet, peak[30] | ||||||
| Surface gravity of white dwarf Sirius B[31] | ||||||
| Ultracentrifuge[32] | ||||||
| 10 Mm/s2 | Jellyfish stinger[33] | |||||
| 1 Gm/s2 | 1 m/s2 | The record peak acceleration of a projectile in a coilgun, a 2 gram projectile accelerated in 1 cm from rest to 5 km/sec.[34] | ||||
| 1 Tm/s2 | 7 m/s2 | 7 g | Max surface gravity of a neutron star | |||
| 2.1 m/s2 | 2.1 g | Protons in the Large Hadron Collider[35] | ||||
| 1 Zm/s2 | 9.149 m/s2 | g | Classical (Bohr model) acceleration of an electron around a 1H nucleus. | |||
| 176 m/s2 | 1.79 g | Electrons in a 1 TV/m wakefield accelerator[36] | ||||
| 1 QZm/s2 | Coherent Planck unit of acceleration | |||||