On 05/31/2012 02:58 PM, Henry Baker wrote:
> Thanks very much for this posting. It sounds very interesting.
>
> Do you have a reference or link to this teenager's paper?
Hi,
as far as I know, there is no published paper yet. Of course, once you
see the general solution
of an ODE, in a simple form like the one shown in the press, it is very
easy to find out what
the ODE is and then link it to Newton's law for the projectile.
I just saw this morning someone's derivation of the equation in
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/150242/teenager-solves-newton-dynamics-problem-where-is-the-paper
and I wrote down this variant that I sent to the list, but I still have
no idea what
method has the teenager used to get it.
After I sent the message I have also seen a reference to a 19th century book
(http://books.google.pt/books?id=2C9LAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA209&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false)
where apparently the equation also appears.
Cheers,
Jaime