The falling raindrop, revisited
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raindropfallingmassaccretionallowarbitrarycollectingcoupled
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I reconsider the problem of a raindrop falling through mist, collecting mass, and generalize it to allow an arbitrary power-law form for the accretion rate. I show that the coupled differential equations can be solved by the simple trick of temporarily eliminating time (t) in favor of the raindrop's mass (m) as the independent variable
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