Timeline for Gently falling functions
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| Jun 20, 2011 at 16:53 | vote | accept | Joseph O'Rourke | ||
| Jun 20, 2011 at 15:35 | history | edited | S. Carnahan♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
More about numerical solutions; deleted 4 characters in body; added 13 characters in body
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| Jun 20, 2011 at 10:56 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @Scott: Nice derivation! And that document to which you linked is spot-on: "Will a car fly off the rollercoaster?" Near the end: "Let us note that Eq. (4.10b) for a general form of the track (i.e., for a general $y(x)$) cannot be solved analytically. Nevertheless, it can be easily solved numerically, e.g., in Matlab." | |
| Jun 20, 2011 at 3:33 | history | edited | S. Carnahan♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Forgot about solutions with small normal force.
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| Jun 20, 2011 at 3:20 | history | answered | S. Carnahan♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |