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From: yaroze@theburrow.co.uk (Barry & Robert Swan)
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Subject: Re: Interesting Game Physics
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:40:55 GMT
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On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:53:49 +0100, "Mike Hatfield"
<mhatfield@ridgeway-sys.com> wrote:

>If you want me to go from 20m/s to 0 in 10 seconds using constant
>retardation, then I'll do it over 100m. If you only want me to go 50m, then
>I have to come to a halt within 5 seconds. What you can't do is ask me to
>take 10 seconds but only travel 50m.

Exactly - beacuse we knew that there could be an 'a' for certain
instances of 's, t, u + v' we quickly assumed that there were
solutions for all values. Which of course there aren't. Cue much
slapping of heads and staring into the distance. Idiots :)

The only real soluition is to include differentiation, and
unsurprisingly were avoiding it a bit :) having said that, it wouldnt
give us the visual effect we wanted anyway...

I was particularly impressed by the way I substituted one formula into
another, only to completely remove 'a' from the equation, leaving me
wondering what the hell just happened :)

Rob