What are the derivatives of position with respect to time

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jounce, the derivatives of position with respect to time are position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, pop.

Who came up with snap, crackle, and pop? What about higher order derivatives?

Solution 1:

The wikipedia article you cited gives a reference to this summary from The Original Usenet Physics FAQ, which states, "Needless to say, none of these are in any kind of standards, yet. We just made them up on usenet."

Searching Google, I found this usenet net.space thread from January 1984 in which Bill Gosper wrote:

Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 06:28:00 EST
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.15994
Posted: Thu Jan 26 06:28:00 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jan-84 03:19:55 EST
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From:  Bill Gosper 

Did you mean finesse instead of finess?  Objectation instead of oblectation?
Anyway, here are three more from hearsay:

Crackle:  see Snap.
Pop:  see Snap.
Snap, Crackle, and Pop:  the fourth, fifth, and sixth time derivatives of
position..

If you want to find out more about it, your new challenge is to find Bill Gosper and convince him to post an answer here.

Solution 2:

"Snap, crackle, pop" was (perhaps still is?) an advertising slogan for Kellogg's Rice Crispies, attempting to imitate the sound made when rice crispies encounter milk.