Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Fox 273

2 comments:

  1. Translate parabola to place vertex at (0,0).
    y = ax^2 and y = r-V(r^2-x^2).
    Bob Ryden's method: r-V(r^2-x^2) >= ax^2, simplify to ax^2 >= (2ar-1)/a.
    Since ax^2 >= 0, .: the greatest (2ar-1)/a is 0.
    .: ar = 0.5, hence ad = 1. Yu

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