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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Differentation in Ada?
Date: 22 Jan 2004 18:40:45 -0500
Date: 2004-01-22T18:40:45-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.2.1074814853.2270.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.01.22.20.23.15.519086@realitycoder.com>

"Bill Ward" <bill_Ward@realitycoder.com> writes:

> Well I would like to calculate the velocity of a particle travelling along
> a curve that is rotating around a fixed point:
>           _
>    v = [ dr ]   _   _
>        ------ = w X r
>        [ dt ] 
> 
> r being the distance from the particle to the fixed point.
> t is time
> w is the anular velocity

So all you need are Cartesian vectors and cross products. See
http://www.toadmail.com/~ada_wizard/ada/sal.html.

-- 
-- Stephe




      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-22 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-22 17:52 Differentation in Ada? Bill Ward
2004-01-22 19:40 ` David C. Hoos
2004-01-22 20:23   ` Bill Ward
2004-01-22 23:40     ` Stephen Leake [this message]
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