飞机什么时候开始降落

国外微积分课本拓展题-关于飞机什么时候开始降落的数学模型及计算

题目如下：

题目分四部分，先做第一部分
1.The function is the height of airplane (h) with respect to horizontal distance (l) from touchdown at the origin.Here ,h and l are both constant,
so we use variables y represent h as well as variables x represent l.
As the initial position of airplane is (l,h),and the destination position is origin(0,0),so we get P(0)=0,P(l)=h,from the figure, we can see the slope of curve P(x) in the start and end are 0 ,so we can get P’(0)=0,P’(l)=0.According to these suitable conditions, we can get four equations as below:

So ,we can get the exact P(x)

接下来做第二部分，第二部分，网上有一种求法，就是直接在第一部分结果上对t求导，y对t求导就等于纵向的速度，x对t求导就等于横向的速度，而条件中提到横向速度为常数v，只要证明纵向的加速度的最大值小于k就可以了。所以要对t求二阶导数。而我没有这么做，因为上面是一个h关于l的函数，而不是关于t的函数，我是根据第一题的提示，直接假设一个y关于t的函数，设y也是一个三次幂多项式（现在想想，这也是合理的，因为x=l-vt，带入1中的多项式可以算出y关于t的函数表达式），我的过程如下（有点绕了）：

2.According to the conditions,we can know the initial and last vertical volecities are both 0,so we get 4 equations as below:
G(0)=h
G’(0)=0
G(l/v)=0
G’(l/v)=0
And we subsequently infer that,a3=0 because of G’(0)=0,a4=h because of G(0)=h.From the 3 and 4 equations,we get:

So we get the expression of G(x),and G’'(x)

Because t is not bigger than l/v,so the virtical acceleration is :

第三部分就是简单的代数运算了，因为h,k,v都已经给出，求l的最小值，根据上面的公式带入即可，但需要注意的是，这里面给的值的单位不一致，k和v的单位是英里和小时，而高度h是英尺，所以要将英尺换算成英里。根据换算35000feet约等于6.629mile，带入公式可得。
3.As 35000 feet is about 6.629 miles,so we can calculate the minium distance for l:

4.We can use the online mathematics tools to graph the approach path of P(x) as below:
We put l=64.5 and h=6.629 into the expression of P(x),we get P(x)=-0.00004937x^3+0.004777x ^2

We put v=300,h=6.629and l=64.5 into the expression of G’(t) and G’‘(t),we get G’(t)=4002.06t**2-860.44t,G’‘(t)=8004.12t-860.44
Graph G’(t)

Graph G’'(t)