Problem 1846. Free Fall analytical solution (Chapra 2012 textbook Example 1.1)

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 3 Nov 2020

The formula #1.9 is given by https://www.sccollege.edu/Departments/MATH/Documents/Math%20180/03-11-054_Hyperbolic_Functions.pdf (If this link becomes unavailable, Google free-fall velocity hyperbolic tangent)

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