Right, I guess that makes sense, though I must say it still seems a little odd, to me it would seem much more straightforward to use a value of 6 inches instead.
Many thanks anyway!
One more thing, I merely need quick confirmation I'm on the right track here. Later on, they calculated the...
Hi everybody,
I'm writing an exploration on the mathematics of simple harmonic motion and I stumbled across something I fail to understand in one of my resources (http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/Vibrations.aspx). In the example the author uses toward the end of the resource, the...
Hi Marcus,
I'm grateful for your response and thank you, but I still have a tough year ahead! I have stumbled across Matlab but as a solution it seemed slightly too complicated so I quickly looked past it. I am not aware that my school has access to Matlab but I have some contact to my local...
I am a UK iB student who has just finished year 12 (penultimate year) of secondary education.
As part of the iB I have to do a 4000 word extended essay and I chose to do it on the coefficient of restitution of a metre ruler (I am aware this is slightly bizarre and unusual but I had reasons...