The English Galileo and His Vision of Projectile Motion under Air Resistance

Robert Kantrowitz and Michael M. Neumann

International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2020, vol. 2020, 1-6

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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.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1155/2020/9695053

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