How to Approach Solving a Variable-Mass System with a Falling Drip?

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Falling drip surrounding by water vapor. For t=0, initial mass=M and Uo=0. Prove the following equation...
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nil
S(t)=
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Hi all!

Μy attempt to solve it:

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I'm stuck here. An opinion ?

Thanks.
 
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S=t (ud-(gt/2)-ud(m/M))


* I dont't know what happened there
 
I made a new attempt to solve it, and reading more for those kind of problems. I made some errors at the previous posts, so this is my attempt now:

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I'm on the right track ?

Thanks.


Note:

This is the description:
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From: Fundamental University Fhysics Volume 1 (Mechanics), Marcelo Alonso & Edwart J. Finn
 
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