From my understanding the Heaviside step function IS the if function in pure mathematics.
And Mathad's symbolics only deals with pure mathematics (hence no units either).
To show the power of Heaviside as the mathematical IF statement, I've changed the acceleration profile as below:
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Which gives velocity by integration:
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And displacement by integration of velocity:
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Luc
