Yay, it worked!
I implemented the Leapfrog algorithm, and it worked! At first I got a sine wave (which isn't strange seeing as I basically modeled a spring), so I made the calculation stop as soon as x became positive. A bit of a hack solution, also because the rest of the vectors are zeros...
Thanks for your reply gneill! I see, so there is no analytical method of converting distance into time when working with a nonlinear system?
My x_initial doesn't seem suspicious to me, loading a bow by pulling back 62 cm is plausible, right? The minus sign is explicable by the definition of...
Hello awesome physics people!
Someone asked me for help on their first year physics homework, and I couldn't really solve it. This kept bugging me, because I should know how this works by now :P
Homework Statement
See attachment for the full problem statement. Basically, a bow is strung with...