What is the acceleration profile of a cheetah?
According to a recent paper published on Nature, cheetahs can reach a top speed of 29ms-1 and very impressive accelerations, up to 100ms-2:


  The mean top speed was 14.9 +- 3.4ms-1 and was usually only sustained for 1–2 s. The highest speed we recorded was a stride-averaged 25.9-1


Also impressive are the lateral accelerations:


  Hunts involved considerable manoeuvring, with maximum lateral (centripetal) accelerations often exceeding 13ms-2


Here is the acceleration and speed chart:



The paper has several other charts: Locomotion dynamics of hunting in wildcheetahs