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LECTURE 8

LET'S DO SOME MONKEY WORK


NOW THAT THE MONKEY WORK IS DONE, WE CAN GET BACK TO P H Y S I C S
RECALL LAST TIME:
TIME TO THINK
TO BE ABLE TO SET THIS UP YOU NEED TO HAVE A LITTLE INTUITON ABOUT
DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS-AN IMPORTANT SKILL IN CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, AND ALL
BRANCHES OF ENGINEERING. TO SET UP THE EQUATION FOR THIS PROBLEM, YOU NEED
NO ADVANCED MATH SKILLS- BUT THIS IS A THOUGHT PROBLEM AND DEFINITELY NOT
MONKEY WORK
KNOW HOW TO TRANSLATE: RATE OF CHANGE OF VOLUME WITH RESPECT TO s MEANS
TAKE THE DERIVATIVE OF V WITH RESPECT TO s. IN GENERAL WHEN YOU HEAR THE
WORD "RATE OF CHANGE" ALWAYS THINK "DERIVATIVE"
MR. ISAAC NEWTON'S LAW OF COOLING. This law tells you how a cup of coffee cools down, as
well as how a dead body cools down. The law is used by law enforcement to determine how long a
body has been dead after a murder took place to determine the time of death
END OF PHYSICS AT THE MOMENT, MORE MONKEY WORK NEEDED
YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO DERIVE THESE FORMULAS. EACH CAN BE DERIVED USING
THE QUOTIENT RULE.
THE PHYSICS "PROOF" OF THE PRODUCT RULE - DUE TO MR. LEIBNIZ
In the old fashioned Calculus notation the product rule was written as d(uv) = udv + vdu
PHYSICS APPLICATION OF HIGHER ORDER DERIVATIVE
ACCELERATION = SECOND DERIVATIVE
PHYSICS TRIVIA: WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE THIRD DERIVATIVE OF THE POSITION
FUNCTION????

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