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This question comes from my Introduction to Engineering class, but the instructor said he pulled it from a physics textbook. The instructor is a Physics professor and I guess he thought it would be entertaining to give this question to class full of freshmen. Maybe other freshmen have the skills, but my math is weak. I took remedial math last semester and now I'm in college algebra.
Anyway, the professor did "half" of the problem for us in class. He filled up 2 whiteboards with runes, most of which are not given in the problem. I was copying what he wrote down but then stopped, just to try to figure out what the heck he was doing, but I was totally lost. I do not even understand the question. What is it asking for? Am I supposed to plug some of the equations into eachother and simplify or what?
I don't think he really expects anybody to get this right, but I want to try anyway. I just don't know where to start.
This question comes from my Introduction to Engineering class, but the instructor said he pulled it from a physics textbook. The instructor is a Physics professor and I guess he thought it would be entertaining to give this question to class full of freshmen. Maybe other freshmen have the skills, but my math is weak. I took remedial math last semester and now I'm in college algebra.
Anyway, the professor did "half" of the problem for us in class. He filled up 2 whiteboards with runes, most of which are not given in the problem. I was copying what he wrote down but then stopped, just to try to figure out what the heck he was doing, but I was totally lost. I do not even understand the question. What is it asking for? Am I supposed to plug some of the equations into eachother and simplify or what?
I don't think he really expects anybody to get this right, but I want to try anyway. I just don't know where to start.
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