To do power calculations, we are going to need the velocity and acceleration
functions of the destroyer. We can obtain velocity by differentiating
position. Although you could probably do this quite easily by yourself, let's
see how Maple does it:
| vel := diff(position(t), t); |
Thus, the diff built-in function takes two arguments, an expression and a
variable, and differentiates the expression with respect to the variable. Why
do we differentiate position(t) instead of position?
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Joseph L. Zachary
Hamlet Project
Department of Computer Science
University of Utah