Generally, we will think about determining the solution in terms of the position and velocity of the block when we first get the motion started, at a time that we conventionally take to be t=0 For thi...Generally, we will think about determining the solution in terms of the position and velocity of the block when we first get the motion started, at a time that we conventionally take to be t=0 For this reason, the process of determining the solution in terms of the position and velocity at a given time is called the “initial value problem.” The values of position and velocity at t = 0 are called initial conditions.
