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 April 13th, 2017, 04:02 AM #1 Newbie   Joined: Apr 2017 From: India Posts: 16 Thanks: 0 Differential equations While deriving the equation for transverse acceleration, I came across following problem: It is written that: transverse acceleration=(dr/dt)*(ds/dt)+(dr/dt)*(ds/dt)+ r(d^2(s)/dt^2) In the next step it is written that this is equal to: Transverse acceleration = 1/r {(r^2)(d^2 (s))/(dt^2) +2r(ds/dt)}.......How??
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 Originally Posted by shashank dwivedi While deriving the equation for transverse acceleration, I came across following problem: It is written that: transverse acceleration=(dr/dt)*(ds/dt)+(dr/dt)*(ds/dt)+ r(d^2(s)/dt^2) In the next step it is written that this is equal to: Transverse acceleration = 1/r {(r^2)(d^2 (s))/(dt^2) +2r(ds/dt)}.......How??
Is this all there is to the problem statement? I notice that dr/dt has vanished.

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 April 13th, 2017, 07:27 AM #3 Newbie   Joined: Apr 2017 From: India Posts: 16 Thanks: 0 Well, yes I have the same doubt and after that they have written that: Transverse acceleration= 1/r {d((r^2)ds/dt)/dt}
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 transverse acceleration=(dr/dt)*(ds/dt)+(dr/dt)*(ds/dt)+ r(d^2(s)/dt^2)
Hmmmmm.... Another weird thing. The first two terms are equal to each other. Why is that?

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 April 13th, 2017, 05:25 PM #5 Senior Member   Joined: Feb 2016 From: Australia Posts: 1,153 Thanks: 379 Math Focus: Yet to find out. transverse acceleration $= \dfrac{dr}{dt}*\dfrac{ds}{dt} + \dfrac{dr}{dt}*\dfrac{ds}{dt} + r \dfrac{d^2(s)}{dt^2}$ Transverse acceleration = $\dfrac{1}{r} * \dfrac{(r^2) (d^2 (s))}{dt^2} +2r \dfrac{ds}{dt}$ Transverse acceleration= $\dfrac{1}{r} \dfrac{\dfrac{d((r^2)ds}{dt}}{dt}$ This is the exact sequence of steps provided in your text?

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