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S1E1 : Understanding Projectile Motion: Beyond the Parabolic Approximation

September 26, 2024·11 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

This episode explores the often-overlooked fact that the true trajectory of a projectile on Earth is an ellipse, not a parabola, due to the Earth's spheroidal shape and the direction of gravitational acceleration.

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