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Is there a bug in this step (and how to fix it?)

Reading an old book of classical mechanics (Spiegel's theoretical mechanics) I came across a passage that I would like to clarify. In order to find the equations of motion of free falling point ...
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How would one compute the path of an particle's motion from forces defined in different frames of reference?

I'm trying to write a computer program to render and play-back the path of a particle existing in 2D space given all forces acting on said particle. This is relatively easy to do if all forces are ...
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Simple Rotating frame of reference

I have a car moving in straight line with certain time-varying acceleration and there is another car moving in a curvilinear way along some curved path with some time-varying acceleration. The ...
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Velocity as viewed from space

I got a problem which asks if the speed of a car in Oslo is 50km/hr what will be its speed when viewed from space. I have the relation between the velocities as observed from inertial and non-...
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