16 May
2012
16 May
'12
9:43 a.m.
Excellent! What about the corresponding problem where the track is V-shaped? It's a similarly easy exercise with a similarly nice answer -- again, I'd love to know if one can derive it directly without resorting to calculus. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Veit Elser <ve10@cornell.edu> wrote:
On May 16, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Allan Wechsler wrote:
I was slightly surprised by the answer. I think this would be a fine exercise for elementary differential calculus.
Your problem was on the midterm of my mechanics course this semester.
-Veit
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