Differentiation

[woollymoof]

I haven't done maths for a really, really long time and my Mathematica isn't working, so, can someone differentiate 0.5 m v^2 with respect to time for me please.

Thanks

[woollymoof]

I haven't done maths for a really, really long time and my Mathematica isn't working, so, can someone differentiate 0.5 m v^2 with respect to time for me please.

Thanks

[Disco]

What's m and v, and are either of these constants??

[Daves]

I'll answer for him or her:

m is mass and v is velocity, and 0.5*m*v^2 is the expression for kinetic energy.

The derivative of 0.5*m*v^2 = m*v + 0.5*v^2

[Daves]

The resulting value should correspond with power.

Power=work/time

An example of the units could be (kg*m^2)/(s^3) or (ft.*lbs.)/(s) or horsepower.

[woollymoof]

thanks dave

[Daves]

No problem -- it was fun. My thanks to God and my dynamics professor (who was a god for 1.5 hours every other day and who taught me real implicit differentiation), Dr. Roger Gonzales.