Recent content by Krokus

Thanks for helping me out. I really appreciate it. :) I would certainly agree with the treatment of non-constant decleration as a series of piece-wise constant declerations for equal (and sufficiently small) amounts of the total time, but that's reached the point where I just can't see the...

After a bit of pondering, I would think that, since I'm subtracting the rate of deceleration from the initial velocity at regular intervals, the time taken to stop would be initial velocity divided by the rate of deceleration, which makes sense. An earlier post by Andrew mentions d=t(v_orig +...

I'm a bit weak in the physics/math department and could use some help. I'm also trying to compute stopping distance but I have only two parameters: current speed and rate of deceleration. Can someone explain how to compute time and distance in this case? I really only need the distance; I'm...