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  2. Projectile motion - Wikipedia

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    This is the equation of a parabola, so the path is parabolic. The axis of the parabola is vertical. If the projectile's position (x,y) and launch angle (θ or α) are known, the initial velocity can be found solving for v 0 in the afore-mentioned parabolic equation:

  3. Parabolic trajectory - Wikipedia

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    The green path in this image is an example of a parabolic trajectory. A parabolic trajectory is depicted in the bottom-left quadrant of this diagram, where the gravitational potential well of the central mass shows potential energy, and the kinetic energy of the parabolic trajectory is shown in red. The height of the kinetic energy decreases ...

  4. Trajectory - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] In a near vacuum, as it turns out for instance on the Moon, his simplified parabolic trajectory proves essentially correct. In the analysis that follows, we derive the equation of motion of a projectile as measured from an inertial frame at rest with respect to the ground. Associated with the frame is a right-hand coordinate ...

  5. Parabola of safety - Wikipedia

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    The paraboloid of revolution obtained by rotating the safety parabola around the vertical axis is the boundary of the safety zone, consisting of all points that cannot be hit by a projectile shot from the given point with the given speed.

  6. Bertrand's theorem - Wikipedia

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    (The solution = corresponds to a perfectly circular orbit.) If the right side may be neglected (i.e., for small perturbations), the solutions are = ⁡ (), where the amplitude is a constant of integration.

  7. n-body problem - Wikipedia

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    The equation α + ⁠ η / r 3 ⁠ r = 0 is the fundamental differential equation for the two-body problem Bernoulli solved in 1734. Notice for this approach forces have to be determined first, then the equation of motion resolved. This differential equation has elliptic, or parabolic or hyperbolic solutions. [23] [24] [25]

  8. Classical central-force problem - Wikipedia

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    In classical mechanics, the central-force problem is to determine the motion of a particle in a single central potential field.A central force is a force (possibly negative) that points from the particle directly towards a fixed point in space, the center, and whose magnitude only depends on the distance of the object to the center.

  9. Conic section - Wikipedia

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    The discriminant B 2 – 4AC of the conic section's quadratic equation (or equivalently the determinant AC – B 2 /4 of the 2 × 2 matrix) and the quantity A + C (the trace of the 2 × 2 matrix) are invariant under arbitrary rotations and translations of the coordinate axes, [14] [15] [16] as is the determinant of the 3 × 3 matrix above.