You were not wrong. By definition the term acceleration implies a squared exponent on the time dimension in the unit's denominator. There is a more complex acceleration squared, vector, where the time dimension is cubed, but you don't want to go there.

Solicious ?

Impossible.

I'm not even registered in that class.

That was some dandy work, Metalicious. I'm impressed.

Damn...I'll take my "F" just fine, too...I haven't taken a physics class since 1992, and have never had to use it since...plus, I just picked my numbers out of thin air without actually doing any equations...they seemed reasonable enough

Fish on...

Todd

"Are you in my class?"

"I am today."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QDz8Z_DpMw

Not making any comparisons Dan, just playing along with the show...

Okay - I need to know the volume of the balloon in the following example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXdiORUo40I

Doesn't matter what she blows it up with but the volume is still V=4/3(3.14)r*3 (that's r cubed).

Lots of calculus buried in that equation, Salmo. The derivative of the volume of a sphere is surface area of a sphere (multiply equation by the integer value of the exponent and drop the exponent value by 1).

Volume sphere=4/3(3.14)r^3, becomes Area sphere=4(3.14)r^2

Just like the circumference of a circle is derived from a circle's area.

Circle area=(3.14)r^2, becomes Circumference circle=2(3.14)r

The integrals that relate the two dimensional circle circumference and area to the three dimensional equations above are somewhat complicated to describe here, but they involve an analysis called solids of revolution, or the shell method. You can Google these derivations easy enough if you want to see the math. :-)

Holy crap...........Metalicious shows off his huge brain again.

Again, I'm impressed.

Spells too good for Solicious....

Metalicious,

Math and calculus were so very long ago I'm lucky to calculate board feet of lumber for a project or square feet of paint coverage, etc. And I'm shocked spitless if my checkbook actually balances!

Sg

You balance your checkbook?

I'm out of my league here.

SD-

Just wondered after the cat thread if this volume formula applies to you as a windbag.

Pompus windbag

Notice pi was rounded to two decimal places.....lame!

'bout 2 cups of chile beans and a polish kraut I reckon

Pi is COOOOOL! Computer models have run it out to millions and millions of decimal places...infinity, one can assume.... and have not deciphered a repeatable sequence of numbers in any form.

duh.

I got straight A's in calculus but about all I can recall off hand were problems dealing with calculating inflection points where an increasing rate begins to decrease and vice versa.

I started first quarter calculus with a B.....struggled through second and third with C's.....and passed differential equations and linear algebra with D's.....BUT, I recall almost all of it and what I don't only takes a few glaces at the old text to refresh my memory.

I think I got the better deal in the long run.

Lamest thread ever....<grin>