Recent content by Jamie S

Chestermiller... I take your comments and while i may or may not have had enough time using calculus my initial intention was never to solve this equation. I did however ask about it because i was curious of how it would be solved using the calculus method. It isn't homework or course work, i at...

you no i am aware that i will need to improve drastically if I am to ever progress from this level. at the moment through we've not touched on any calculus though we have only just enrolled monday.

ive had one mathematics class up to now. very little on my level 2.

i don't quite follow

using quadratic formula was suggested however it was insisted that differentiation be used. im looking at my notes from mondays math and the handout i received with calculus rules. isnt the derivative of a function normally dy/dx = ... in this case would that be; ds/dt = ut+1/2at^2

the only time I've taken min and max values was by using a quadratic equation

Hi all, I started a level 3 btech in mech engineering and today was my first physics class. All went well apart from the tricky question at the end of class. I thought it was a good idea to ask the question "how much harder can this be from last year". Turns out for me not being brilliant at...