Recent content by richsmith

Yes how an engineering mind can spend so much time on something completely useless is still a mystery, especially to me...

If a technical mind gets bored , anything can happen, this is what happened to me... I'm behind the camera, not in the video, sad really... Rich.

After some head scratching yes it does, finaly. I think my mistake has always been trying to integrate wrt time. I really had to step back and ask myself what i was after, work that is, which is not a time integral. Manipulating dv/dt to dx/dt and then subbing in V now makes it...

I have a question that annoys my basic understanding of kinetic energy. I know if I have a force-time plot then the area under the curve is equivalent to the impulse imparted on an object (in units Newton-Seconds). I know that this is also equivalent to the change in momentum of the object...