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Article #88slope field
From: fan
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00
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Hi : I'm a high school student I have a question about slope field this question i'm copy from the book call " CALCULUS concepts and applicantions" paul a. foerster 1998 by key curriculum press. page 331 #8. A sky diver jumps from an airplane. During the free-fall stage, her speed increases at the acceleration of gravity, about 32.16 (ft/sec)/sec. But wind resistance causes a force that reduces the acceleration. The resistance force is proportional to the square of the velocity. Assume that the comstant of proportionality is 0.0015, so that: dv/dt =32.16 - 0.0015 V^2 v is in feet per second and t is in seconds 1. what does the slope appear to be at the point (5, 120)? what does it actually equal? Explain any discrepancy between your two answers? For this one i substitute 120 to the equation but i got 10.56 for slope. that is impossible??????? and rest of the question i have not idea how to do, please help me out. thank you 2. The velocity approaches an asymptote. what does this terminal velocity appear to equal? About how long does it take her to fall until she is essentially at this velocity? thank you fanngmail@prodigy.net
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f7972,62427cb76c7c05d9,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf7972,public From: fanngmail@prodigy.net (fan) Subject: slope field Date: 1998/01/27 Message-ID: <34d08f37.4760877@news.prodigy.net> X-Deja-AN: 319600632 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Auth-User: 001251480/8bad4846adb65b3a X-Post-Time: 27 Jan 1998 07:40:13 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Prodigy Services Corp X-Problems-To: abuse@prodigy.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: can.schoolnet.math.sr