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Re: Help Calculating time to recharge air tanks

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Originally Posted by JamesCH95 View Post
This is what I would do.
Hooray!

Pro-tip: if your students don't yet know calculus, approximate the curve with a trapezoid (or several) to teach them the *idea* of calculus, and of using unit analysis on axes to determine the physical quantities yielded by integration.
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