Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Derivation of velocity equation with Air Resistance

The derivation of the equation for the velocity of an object experiencing air resistance was long and tricky.  I've prepared a PDF of it with notes about the steps.  You can find it here.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B54jRZBDezIHSnB6UHFaWkRXMlE/view?usp=sharing

There is a minor mistake in the middle of the second page.  Twice I write dt instead of u, in the denominator of the right hand side of the equation.  This is in the section that I've labeled "now collect terms and integrate."

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