13.4. Finding Out Facts about Falling Objects
A basic use of differential equations is finding out information about falling objects. This equation tells you the object's acceleration:
whereas this equation tells you the object's velocity:
For more details, go to www.analyzemath.com/calculus/Differential_Equations, click the applications.html link, and scroll to Application 3.
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