Everyone knows from calculus that if you're trying to find a function about which you know only the derivative, you can always add a constant to one person's answer without changing anything.

学过微积分的人都知道,如果你想根据已知的导数,求出其原函数,你总是可以给某人的答案,随便加一个常数,且不影响结果

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I've got to find them by experimenting, by putting other bodies and seeing how they react and then finding out what's the force that acts on a body when it's placed in this or that situation.

我得通过实验找出这些力,我会增加其它物体,观察其反应,求出当它处在这种或者那种情况下时,作用在物体上的力

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take the derivative of this, get the velocity vector and you notice his magnitude is a constant Whichever way you do it, you can then rewrite this as v square over r.

对这个式子求一次导,就能得到速度矢量,你会发现其模长是常数,不管用什么方法,加速度也可以写成 v^2 / r

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