minus-squarebob_lemon@feddit.orgtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•And it's a long day, livin' in Reseda...linkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 day agoWe can safely ignore the acceleration time, so the distance is just terminal velocity times time. Catching up means equal distance for both, so v1*t1 = v2*t2 Substituting t1 with t2+T, where T is the headstart, we can solve for t2: v1*(t2+T) = v2*t2 v1*T = v2*t2-v1*t2 t2 = (v1*T)/(v2-v1) v1*T is also the distance of the first jumper when the serving jumper jumps. So it’s headstart distance divided by the relative velocity. linkfedilink
minus-squarebob_lemon@feddit.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your favourite technical/scientific joke?linkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 days agoWhat’s curved, yellow, normed and complete? A bananach space linkfedilink
We can safely ignore the acceleration time, so the distance is just terminal velocity times time. Catching up means equal distance for both, so
Substituting t1 with t2+T, where T is the headstart, we can solve for t2:
v1*T is also the distance of the first jumper when the serving jumper jumps. So it’s headstart distance divided by the relative velocity.