Morning Coffee Spill

This morning, I had to take my coffee to school in a regular mug because all the thermos were dirty. As I started to accelerate, I spilled some of the coffee from the cup. I became aware that this was due to the linear acceleration of the car, an important part of our course in Fluid Mechanics. Using linear acceleration formulas, I would have been able to determine the maximum acceleration that I could have reached without spilling my coffee from the cup.