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What is the shortest horizontal distance from a crest to a point of zero acceleration?
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Calculating Distance Between Wave Crest and Zero Acceleration Point?
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What is the shortest horizontal distance from a crest to a point of zero acceleration?
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Dont know how to begin...
Feldoh
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Do you know any calculus?
dietcokegal
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Well I do...kinda. That was a couple of years ago. Except the physics course I am taking is an algebra based course...
Any other suggestions?
Any other suggestions?
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ok … forget calculus …
on a graph, what shapes are negative zero and positive acceleration?
on a graph, what shapes are negative zero and positive acceleration?
Dadface
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dietcogekal it may help to think of something like a swinging pendulum.Where in the swing is the acceleration a maximum and where is it zero?
This is sounding more like simple harmonic motion, and not a wave phenomena problem.
We really should have an equation describing the motion, to work from ... what does the textbook have in the way of equations for this topic?
We really should have an equation describing the motion, to work from ... what does the textbook have in the way of equations for this topic?