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Re: [Phys-L] absolute acceleration and not velocity or position



Thanks much for reporting the typo! Now fixed.

Bruce


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Jeffrey Schnick <JSchnick@anselm.edu>wrote:

Where you wrote:
"If y = ax^{0.5}, what is dy/dx?" He immediately said that dy/dx =
0.5x^{-0.5}.
you probably meant to write
...that dy/dx = 0.5ax^{-0.5}.


-----Original Message-----
From: Phys-l [mailto:phys-l-bounces@phys-l.org] On Behalf Of
Bruce Sherwood
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 5:39 PM
To: Phys-L@Phys-L.org
Subject: Re: [Phys-L] absolute acceleration and not velocity
or position

Here are my own observations on the important issue of
multistep reasoning (some of you may have already seen this):

http://matterandinteractions.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/calculus
-and-formal-reasoning-in-intro-physics/

Bruce
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