I'm having trouble with the 2nd part of this problem. By letter "d" I mean "partial," I wasn't able to preview latex, so I went without it.
x=x'+V*t' (V is a constant)
t=t'
f=f(x,t)
Part a
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Find df/dt' and df/dx'. I got the following:
df/dt'=df/dt+V*(df/dx)
df/dx'=df/dx...
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