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Old April 26th, 2009, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by derfleurer View Post
What's the s-axis? And s(0)? If s is your time in seconds, is the function s returning time based on acceleration, distance, velocity, what?

I'm assuming your distance at time 0 is 1. In which case you just take the integral of V(t) and your constant of integration becomes 1.

D(t) = x^3 + x^2 + 1

Well this seems to explain it better than my feeble mind.
I'm not sure what the s-axis is, I think its position. Time doesnt matter. I think the function is based off V(t), in which case for what i'm doing is velocity.

I guess I dont understand why i'm taking the integral. The answer in the solutions part of the book gives the same function you described. Also how do you know 1 is the constant?
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