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DoNotDisturb

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i'm trying to solve this "displacement from velocity problem"

the velocity is 15t^0.6

i'm trying to find the displacement equation.

i have no idea on how to pursue this, any help that can guide me to the answer?
 

Orsorum

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I think you'd take the integral of the equation... should be something like 9.375 t^1.6 + C, where C is a constant - do you have any initial values?
 

DoNotDisturb

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we haven't learned that stuff yet, right now we're only dealing with finding derivatives of a power and derivatives using the x=c definition. We haven't really gotten into definite/indefinte integrals yet (indepth)
 

MajesticMoose

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to get the displacement function, you integrate the velocity since the velocity is the derivative of the dsiplacement curve.

to find that>

integral X^n = 1/nX^(n+1) + c, where X is the variable and c is a constant of integration. The answer would be 9.375 t^1.6, unless i'm foreting something