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10F-Lab1

solved equations

1. Compute the distance travelled by a soccer ball.

A soccer ball d = 22 cm diameter W = 0.425 kg Cd = 0.2 A = pi (d/2)² ρ = 1.2 kg m⁻³

Fd = 1/2 Cd * A * ρ * V²

2. The density of a substance is defined as ρ = m/V , where m is the mass of a volume V Buoyancy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoyancy

Write a function that tells you how much of substance X is needed to make a buoy that floats on the surface.

simple numeric functions over atomic data that follow directly from template

basic tests of numeric functions