• ji17br
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    21 days ago

    My mistake, I didn’t check his math. I thought he was saying if you take distance apart at t(n) and subtract distance apart at t(n-1) you will get distance/sec.

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      20 days ago

      Only if you divide by time. Including units is an essential sanity check.

      Also, the rest of the math needs to be correct.

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        20 days ago

        Well that’s my point. The answer is correct in this specific case, because it’s already “built-in” so to speak.