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Undergrad How Do You Find Velocity When Acceleration Is Not Constant?
Ok that makes a lot of sense, but it means that I am kind of back where I started hehe. I have a program updating calculations for a, v, x, and y in small increments, assuming that a is constant for a tiny amount of time, which seems more or less like Euler's method. I was wondering how exact my... -
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Undergrad How Do You Find Velocity When Acceleration Is Not Constant?
Alright, let me make sure I understand that, since I don't know much calculus. Are the equations relating acceleration at distance x and distance y? Also, how do you exactly go about solving the coupled differential equations? It might be a bit over my head right now, but thanks anyways for your... -
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Undergrad How Do You Find Velocity When Acceleration Is Not Constant?
In planetary motion, how do you find change in velocity and change in time in relation to a change in distance? (a=GM/x^2) since you cannot simply use an equation like vf=vi+at, unless "a" is constant, how do you do it?