What is it you have to know about this object that was thrown, I claim, is the initial location of the object and the initial velocity.

关于这个物体,我们需要了解什么,我要强调的,就是这个物体的初位置和初速度

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They tell you the initial location and initial velocity of the object.

它们表示的是物体的初始位移,和初始速度

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What's the location of the object?

这些物体的位置怎么表述

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So I realize that the constant, c, is the initial location of the object, and it's very common to denote that by x0.

所以我发现常数c,就是物体的初位移,我们习惯用x0表示

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