The English Galileo and his vision of projectile motion under air resistance (Q779982)
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The English Galileo and his vision of projectile motion under air resistance (English)
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14 July 2020
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Summary: This article presents a detailed discussion of the shape of the trajectory traced by a projectile under the forces of gravity and air resistance. In particular, our results confirm the insight of the English scientist Thomas Harriot into the motion of a projectile before the development of Newtonian classical mechanics. Our approach is based on the fact that the flight path of a resisted projectile is implemented by a strictly concave function for which the derivative is also strictly concave.
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