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Originally Posted by badkarma
Yeah, that's a better resource. Upon a cursory look, the OP's equations look correct, but the full-blown equations are 2nd order ODEs that need to be numerically-integrated due to their non-linear nature - so that'll give you much more accurate results.

thank god there are online calculators for this. Calculus was way too many years ago.
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