Recent content by dylanm

I think you're making the simple mistake of missing a term from your equation of vertical motion. As for (c), it's a matter of figuring out how long the shot is in the air.

Hi folks. I'm a longtime lurker who is starting to explore proof-based mathematics, and I'm having trouble figuring out what I can and cannot do in a problem. I'm stuck on this simple problem from the wonderful Spivak Calculus book: If f(x)\le g(x) \forall x, then \lim_{x\to...

Hey everybody. I'm a long-time lurker who needs some help. I've just recently decided to become a physics major, and now I have a feeling that my math background is inadequate. I want to get some sort of math degree and take courses that would be useful for physics, but I don't have a lot of...