Comments on: 5th year - one month in http://transatlanticitinerant.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/5th-year-one-month-in/ Subheadingless since 2007 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:49:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Ciaran Lee http://transatlanticitinerant.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/5th-year-one-month-in/#comment-565 Ciaran Lee Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:59:07 +0000 http://transatlanticitinerant.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/5th-year-one-month-in/#comment-565 I used to love Applied Maths too. The air resistance problem isn't huge though, once you change over to differention + integration for the calculations it's pretty much just a case of adding in (some constant x Velocity^2) of acceleration to account for air resistance... of course if your projectile goes too high the air density changes... then higher still and X Y and Z change As far as I remember, pretty much all of the problems in Leaving Cert APM could be solved with the standard equations like S=UT +1/2A(T^2), but doing things the calculus way makes it possible to model more realistically, which is what you'll get to do in uni :) I used to love Applied Maths too. The air resistance problem isn’t huge though, once you change over to differention + integration for the calculations it’s pretty much just a case of adding in (some constant x Velocity^2) of acceleration to account for air resistance… of course if your projectile goes too high the air density changes… then higher still and X Y and Z change

As far as I remember, pretty much all of the problems in Leaving Cert APM could be solved with the standard equations like S=UT +1/2A(T^2), but doing things the calculus way makes it possible to model more realistically, which is what you’ll get to do in uni :)

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