Haiduke Sarafian
Abstract
An analytic expression for the path length of a projectile thrown with an initial velocity V0 and angle θ above the horizontal in a vacuum is derived. It is shown that a 56.46° projectile angle maximizes the projectile's path length and this angle is independent of the initial velocity.
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An analytic expression for the path length of a projectile thrown with an initial velocity V0 and angle θ above the horizontal in a vacuum is derived. It is shown that a 56.46° projectile angle maximizes the projectile's path length and this angle is independent of the initial velocity.
Key concepts: Projectile, Projectile motion, Range of a projectile, Physics, Path (computing), Motion (physics), Path length, Classical mechanics