Optimal angles for launching projectiles: Lagrange vs. CAS

MaRDI QIDQ3652875zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Robert Kantrowitz, Michael M. Neumann

Publication date 16 December 2009

Full work available at URL http://www.math.ualberta.ca/ami/CAMQ/table_of_content/vol_16/16_3d.htm

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrange multipliersLambert \(W\) functionprojectileballistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinematics of a particle (70B05)

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