Recent content by Vihsadas

Ohhhhhh. I get it. I see the problem now. Thank you both for helping me to actually understand this problem. I can do the problem now! :) My troubles came from 1) not properly understanding how to set up the integral, and 2) Not understanding how to find the appropriate s(h).

I went to see my prof today for help, and he didn't actually go through the problem with me, but I think the gist of what he was saying is that the way that I was approaching the problem by integrating dV to find the mass, would be fine, if I realized that the height I was dealing with is no...

I have a question involving calculus and Mechanics. It's from AP french, question 10-12. There's a pyramid with a square base of side, b, length 230m, and height, h, 150m. The density, p, of the pyramid is 2500kg/m^3. We are asked to find the total potential energy, PE of the pyramid taking the...