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| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Bliss
let's figure out how far the cat traveled:
displacement = (initial velocity * change in time) + [1/2 * acceleration * (change in time)^2]
now was the cat short or long-haired? fat or thin? this affects air drag and aerodynamics and helps determine how across the water he makes it
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the "acceleration term" in your equation already takes care of the air resistance, if you want it to. In the end, you need to realize that it is two-dimensional movement, i.e. the cat goes up-down and from one island to the other. Therefore we need two equations. One of which we will be able to solve for time (the vertical motion) in order to compute the horizontal motion.
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