Teen solves 300 year old riddle (ballistics related)

[TattooedGun]

http://www.canada.com/technology/Teen+s ... story.html

And if you're interested in the equation:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comme ... an/c4sxd91

This could be very good days for the world of projectiles...

[ovenpaa]

Alternatively



Obvious really...........

[TattooedGun]

its way over my head... I'm sure if I sat down and studied it sequentially I could figure out whats going on... but its pretty spectacular, especially when you read the kid was moved from India and had to learn German as he went along whilst studying, and he's doing German A-levels 2 years ahead of his peers! I can barely apply myself enough to get out of bed on a morning and theres people doing this kinda stuff out there :(

*depressed now!* :-p

[John25]

Of course!

Where E = elevation
W = wind
G = wild guess
T = trigger time
C = Common sense
S = skill level
L = luck
e +(w/g)-(t*s)/(c *L10) = V

Simples!

:lol:

[ovenpaa]

Surely that should be L*10 squared?

[John25]

I couldn't do superscript, it was meant to be L to the power of ten!

[Chuck]

:lol: My brain hurts...can someone REALLY make that equation work...LOL

[TattooedGun]

I could probably write a calculator in vbscript/asp and have it work if you put the variables in... might take a while though!

[spud]

if u2-v2.7568 - u2 @1/2 *v3/3.281 to the power of 3 = 1 then the flux capacater would have worked


such a simple mistake to make really

[John25]

if u2-v2.7568 - u2 @1/2 *v3/3.281 to the power of 3 = 1 then the flux capacater would have worked


such a simple mistake to make really

Damnation, I should have known that, but, on the other hand I had forgotten that, Instantaneous Velocity can be defined as The Power that gave an objects its motion divided by the force at that particular instance.

Basically the equation for velocity of a moving mass in a particular direction is as follows;

V = D / T

Where V is velocity
D is Displacement distance traveled
T is the time period it took in the motion of the displacement during travel.

Time by definition is non linear .And Because of the non linearity of Time ,it cannot be measured instantaneously.

That means as soon as a measurement is taken the position of the mass has changed.
Therefore is is not possible to determine position and time at the same instance.
This is what the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle infers,

Consequently We can only measure average:Thus instantaneous velocity can only be calculated as a function of the Power that gave motion to an body.

If the motion of a body is in more than one direction at the same time then the Powers that gave the motion in those directions would have to be added vectorially.

So in order to achieve V, all variables must be reduced to a minimum in order to produce the optimum result.

:cheers: