Controlling acceleration is literally a reality-breaking power. It's the Worm Superpower Effect - even as macroscopic power as controlling bugs, used creatively, can rise in power disproportionately; a power over something as basic as acceleration is literal godhood within its range if you have the know-how.
Accelerate particles, you're a pyromancer now. Accelerate atoms against each other, you're a nukemancer. Accelerate a small projectile, you now have a psychic M82 Barrett rifle. Accelerate bodyparts enough, you've just made your enemy rip off their own bodypart. Accelerate the entire damn enemy upwards... SPLAT!
Except I'm an Acceleration mage competing against a Healer/Summoner mage (who gave me cancer by accident), a Force mage (force as in the thing that
creates acceleration), an Aspect mage, an Aether/Summoning mage, a Weaponry mage, a Pestilence/Metals mage, a Temperature mage, a Curse mage, a Metal mage (again), a Demon-Summoner mage, a Warp mage (WH40K), and a Luck mage. At least three of my competitors have reality-breaking powers like I do (Force, Temperature, Luck) and since the power and technique of the spells cast are based on dice rolls, finding efficient ways to kill people with Acceleration that don't require high rolls is pretty important.
I'm curious, though, about your comment on accelerate atoms together. If I were to get two atoms to collide with each-other, is there some way I can be sure the explosion won't be big enough to be a literal nuke?
Worm Superpower Effect? What's that?
Don't worry if you don't know about derivatives yet, if you're stll in school you'll get there eventually.
I left high school at year 11 so I could do university full-time (was doing it part-time at the time) so I'm unaware of anything beyond that level, especially since I left early in the year.
Funny thing is that acceleration isn't what kills people, it is a DIFFERENCE in acceleration between parts of the body that causes damage. You can accelerate someone at 10,000 g just fine as long as the acceleration is equally applied to every part of the body.
Yup, we got that. One of the things we're trying to do here is find out which specific body parts to accelerate to the exclusion of others with the intent of killing, injuring, and/or disabling that person (among talks about how to create nukes and plasma rifles with acceleration). For example, increasing the downwards acceleration ONLY on a man's two best friends will lead to a very unhappy breakup in the near future.