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How to Find Trajectory of Particle?
Let’s say I have a particle, and I know all the forces acting on it at every position. (Let’s say the particle is in an electric/gravitational field to simplify the mathematics involved.) Now, is ...
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What is $V$ in $a$=$V$$dv$/$dx$? [duplicate]
$a$=instantaneous acceleration
$V$=instantaneous velocity
$x$=position
$dx$=small Chang in position
$a$=$dv$/$dt$
multiplying numerator and denominator by $dx$,we get
$a$=$dv$.$dx$/$dx$.$dt$
now we ...
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Circular motion equivalent in three dimensions [closed]
Are there equations or even a concept of circular motion/tangential acceleration/centripetal acceleration in three dimensions? Maybe something called "spherical acceleration"? or am I just ...
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Why does solving the differential equation for circular motion lead to an illogical result?
In uniform circular motion, acceleration is expressed by the equation
$$a = \frac{v^2}{r}. $$
But this is a differential equation and solving it gets the result $$v = -\frac{r}{c+t}.$$
This doesn’t ...
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Power and work contradiction
A body is starting from rest. A force is acting on it for a short period of time. In that given time, power delivered to it at any instance $t$ is given
$$P = F \cdot v_1 = ma \cdot v_1 = mv_1^2/t,$$
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Differential Equation & MacLaurin Series for Newton’s Second Law
I am currently working with a differential equation, where I think I need to take the derivative of $ma$ (corrected as per comment). I am trying to write $F = ma$ as a MacLaurin series and eventually ...
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Acceleration as a function of position and time
I know if you have an acceleration as a function of $t$, $a(t)$, to find the velocity you simply integrate $a(t)$ with respect to $t$. Moreover, if the acceleration was a function of position, $a(x)$, ...
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Why don't we define time derivative of acceleration? [duplicate]
When we started the study of kinematics we defined position and its change with respect to time. After that we defined time derivative of velocity which gave us acceleration.
These 3 concepts really ...
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Is there any reason why acceleration should not be the first derivative of the absolute value of velocity? [closed]
I ask mainly because I am not familiar enough with newtonian mechanics and higher-level physics in general to know the repercussions of such a change, but on the simpler plane of existence, I have ...
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Zero velocity, zero acceleration?
In one dimension, the acceleration of a particle can be written as:
$$a = \frac{dv}{dt} = \frac{dv}{dx} \frac{dx}{dt} = v \frac{dv}{dx}$$
Does this equation imply that if:
$$v = 0$$
Then,
$$\...
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