The terms projectile and trajectory are introduced. Projectile Motion: The terms projectile and trajectory are introduced. Students learn to describe horizontal and vertical components of a projectile ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 32, No. 3/4 (Dec., 1970), pp. 363-378 (16 pages) For computing the trajectory of a projectile the retardation coefficient is ...

In a previous post, I was trying to show that the range of a projectile depends on the launch angle. Yes, this isn't that too difficult to see in an introductory physics course, but how do you show ...

Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be done with great ...

A GERMAN 16-year-old is the first to solve a centuries-old mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton. Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and ...