Now I suppose it's my reluctance to get into the intricacies of questions having to do with applied theory that makes me prefer to keep it simple.

我不愿意在,应用理论上纠结,因此想把它简单化。

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So, what happens here is this opening phrase, that we'll call A-- musicians like to label stuff just with alphabetical labels to keep it simple.

那么,首句这里,我们称作A,音乐家喜欢用字母,来做标记,这样比较简单

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So, we know in this example the initial height should be 15 meters and the initial velocity should be 10, and for acceleration, I'm going to use -g and to keep life simple, I'm going to call it -10.

我们知道在这个例子中,初始高度为15米,初始速度为10,然后是加速度,我们用"-g"表示重力加速度,为了计算方便,加速度的值取为-10

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