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Free fall with air resistance, must find velocity
Thank you very much Halls, that was a huge help. (It is a definite integral, though, evaluated at an arbitrary time t and assuming v=0 at t=0. I did away with the constant of integration.) I still can't get the answer that is given in the back of the book, however. When I manipulate it to a form...- Merbdon
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Free fall with air resistance, must find velocity
Why would you neglect the gravity term?- Merbdon
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Free fall with air resistance, must find velocity
Thanks for the replies everyone, but I'm still not seeing it. I am not trying to copy and paste an answer here, I'm doing this on my own time, trying to study before I go back to school in the Fall. Where does the e come from? Is there some basic calculus that I'm overlooking? It looks to me...- Merbdon
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Free fall with air resistance, must find velocity
Homework Statement The problem is to find the velocity as a function of time, given the following; the object is in free fall and its initial velocity is zero. The formula given for the air resistance is: a = g - kv, where g is acceleration d/t gravity, k is a constant, and v is velocity...- Merbdon
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