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jeansaturnie
Aug 28, 2009, 01:47 AM
It is about Uniform Accelerated Motion.. How do you derive the equations?? The four kinematic equations??
mpolo
Aug 28, 2009, 02:01 AM
The two equations that you derive by integration are all that you really need for constant acceleration:
v = v_0 + at
x = x_0 + v_0 t + \frac{1}{2}at^2
provided that you're willing to solve them together with two unknowns for certain problems. The other one-dimensional kinematic equations are derived by solving these two, using different pairs of unknown quantities.
MPolo
ebaines
Aug 28, 2009, 06:21 AM
These equations all starts from two basic definitions:
\vec v(t) = \frac {d \vec {x}(t)} {dt}
and
\vec a (t) = \frac { d \vec {v} (t)} {dt}