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Galileo's use of experiment and mathematics in "The New Science of Motion: A Study of Galileo's De motu locali," Archive for the History of Exact Sciences, 1974, 13:103-306, on pp. 227-228.

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This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Suppose you throw some object near the surface of the earth. If the only significant force on the object is the constant downward ...

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 ...