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Thanks! That helped me understand it better.

I'm reading modern physics, Tipler 5th edition, pages 21 and 22, and I'm not understanding how the differentiation was done from the position to find the velocity. Equation for position: x'= y(x - vt) y is the gamma constant. Then in the first step to find the velocity, a derivative was done...

Homework Statement In my physics homework, I ran into a differential equation. I am attempting to solve this differential equation for y(x). Homework Equations y''[x] = -C/(y[x]^3) - y[x] C is a constant The Attempt at a Solution dy^2/dx^2 = -C y[x]^-3 - y[x] (1)/(-Cy[x]^-3 - y[x]) dy^2=...