Transform formula into another form

In summary, the conversation is about a problem with a hydraulic formula that involves changing a part from yellow-circled to red-circled. The author has attempted to solve it, but is not getting the same result as the original author. They discuss potential errors and approximations.
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fonseh
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Homework Statement


I need help when changing the formula of the yellow circled part to red-circled part ...

Homework Equations

The Attempt at a Solution


I tried , but i didnt get what the author got ... Here's my working ... Which part of my working is wrong ?
 

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Moved to Calculus and Beyond section.
@fonseh, many helpers won't respond if the problem statement and work are shown only in attached images.
 
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fonseh said:

Homework Statement


I need help when changing the formula of the yellow circled part to red-circled part ...

Homework Equations

The Attempt at a Solution


I tried , but i didnt get what the author got ... Here's my working ... Which part of my working is wrong ?
I cannot make sense of the text either. It looks quite wrong. Certainly a du has been omitted from the right hand side, and I cannot see how that 1-u term can appear. Perhaps the N exponent is in the wrong place. Maybe some approximation has been made, but that should be stated.
Your own working has y on the right instead of dy (=y0du).
 
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The closest I can get is ##\frac{y_0du}{S_0}[\left(1-\frac {1}{1-u^N}\right)## ##(1-(\frac{y_c}{y_0})^Mu^{-M})^{-1}]##.
If we use the binomial approximation for the last (...)-1 term, we get:
##\frac{y_0du}{S_0}[\left(1-\frac {1}{1-u^N}\right)## ##(1+(\frac{y_c}{y_0})^Mu^{-M})]##.
Multiplying the brackets out produces something quite close to the text. The remaining differences look like typos.
 
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haruspex said:
The closest I can get is ##\frac{y_0du}{S_0}[\left(1-\frac {1}{1-u^N}\right)## ##(1-(\frac{y_c}{y_0})^Mu^{-M})^{-1}]##.
If we use the binomial approximation for the last (...)-1 term, we get:
##\frac{y_0du}{S_0}[\left(1-\frac {1}{1-u^N}\right)## ##(1+(\frac{y_c}{y_0})^Mu^{-M})]##.
Multiplying the brackets out produces something quite close to the text. The remaining differences look like typos.
Can you show your working pls ? I tried it many times , but didnt get the red part , i gt (1-(1/u)^N ) instead
 
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This is actually hydraulic formula , should i move it to another thread ? Or this is just purely mathematics derivation ? I'm not sure
 
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fonseh said:
This is actually hydraulic formula , should i move it to another thread ? Or this is just purely mathematics derivation ? I'm not sure
It's fine here. The gist of the question is mathematical in nature.
 

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