Why Is My Integration Approach Not Working?

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In summary, the conversation is about a problem involving integration and determining the correct form for an expression. The person discussing the problem is having trouble understanding how to get from one step to the next, but ultimately discovers a solution involving changing the integration constant and evaluating the expression at a specific value. They still have some questions about the process and ask for further clarification.
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Basically, for the life of me I can't see how they get from "This expression may be written as..." to "Which may be integrated to contain..."

Now, I have no problem with the integration at all, I just can't see how they've put it in the right form.

Surely;

[tex]\frac{1}{v_{0}}+\frac{Ct}{m}= \frac{m+Ctv_{0}}{mv_{0}}[/tex]

So [tex](\frac{1}{v_{0}}+\frac{Ct}{m})^{-1}=\frac{mv_{0}}{m+Ctv_{0}}[/tex]

Which integrates to;

[tex]\frac{m}{C}ln(m+Ctv_{0}) + C[/tex]

However as you can see, this is apparently incorrect, and I have a feeling they're right. Just can't see where, I know I'm making a rookie mistake, but I've not practised math for months so it's quite frustrating.

Thanks in advance.

Edit:

I just thought - carrying on using my solution i could simply take [tex]\frac{m}{C}ln(m)[/tex] away from both sides, changing the constant, however that feels like such a cop-out to me, though i guess it would work. I'd still like to know how they've done it if anyone knows.
 
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Chewy0087 said:
Surely;

[tex]\frac{1}{v_{0}}+\frac{Ct}{m}= \frac{m+Ctv_{0}}{mv_{0}}[/tex]

So [tex](\frac{1}{v_{0}}+\frac{Ct}{m})^{-1}=\frac{mv_{0}}{m+Ctv_{0}}[/tex]

Which integrates to;

[tex]\frac{m}{C}ln(m+Ctv_{0}) + C[/tex]

You've somehow identified the integration constant with C. Pick a different symbol and then evaluate the expression at t=0 to identify [tex]x_0[/tex].
 

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