Quadratic equations are extremely common in physics as many real-world phenomena follow this form. A quadratic equation is one which follows the form:
where , , and are real numbers. Most importantly, cannot equal zero or else the equation would be linear. There is no such restriction on and .
The solution can be found by various methods. The most common include the graphical method as well as the quadratic formula.
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