(December 3, 2013 at 6:10 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Deceptively simple...
If there's anything you can't understand, I can take a better photo...
edit: bear in mind that ln = log_e
Nice job! you did it slightly different than I did, but we still used roughly the same process.
(December 3, 2013 at 7:03 pm)FreeTony Wrote: You can do it in a few lines if you solve for delta v, then just use the identity a^b = e^(ln(a^b)) = e^(b*ln(a))
b = 2u/c and a = m0/m1
All these types of problems can generally be solved with the identities ln(a*b) = ln(a) + ln(b) and ln(a^b) = b*ln(a)
What you're describing here seems to be roughly the same as what I did, and it takes more than "a few lines". If you mean something other than I understand, please post a picture of your solution.