Did you get the conditional exactly correct?
The program so far:
import java.io.*;
// User picks ending value for time, t.
// The program calculates and prints the distance the brick has fallen for each t.
//
class fallingBrick
{
public static void main (String[] args ) throws IOException
{
final double G = 9.80665; // constant of gravitational acceleration
int t, limit; // time in seconds, and ending value of time
double distance; // the distance the brick has fallen
BufferedReader userin = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String inputData;
System.out.println( "Enter limit value:" );
inputData = userin.readLine();
limit = Integer.parseInt( inputData );
// Print a table heading
System.out.println( "seconds\tDistance" );
System.out.println( "-------\t--------" );
t = 0 ;
while ( t <= limit )
{
__________________ // calculate distance
__________________ // output result
t = t + 1 ;
}
}
}
The loop body will execute for t = 0, 1, 2, ..., limit.
At the end of the last execution, t is changed to (limit+1).
But the conditional expression will not allow execution
back into the loop body when t is (limit+1).
Now let us calculated the distance for each value of t:
distance = (1/2)*G*t2
Translate the formula into a Java statement to fill the first blank. Watch out: there are two traps!