Inverse of velocity function? *Have pics of attempt*

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Homework Statement



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The Attempt at a Solution



I don't know if I did this right. If I did, I can't find what meaning the inverse of this functions has :S. Any help is appreciated.

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f is a map from v to m, ie
m = f(v)

f-1 will be the map from m to v, ie
v = f-1(m)
 
I think I understand this, but what does it mean physically speaking in terms of mass and the velocity?
 
not too sure... maybe that for a given object there is one to one correspondence between mass & magnitude of velocity, so f-1, is the unique map from mass to velocity magnitude
 
To solve this, I first used the units to work out that a= m* a/m, i.e. t=z/λ. This would allow you to determine the time duration within an interval section by section and then add this to the previous ones to obtain the age of the respective layer. However, this would require a constant thickness per year for each interval. However, since this is most likely not the case, my next consideration was that the age must be the integral of a 1/λ(z) function, which I cannot model.
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