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5. Projectile Motion - Galileo and Einstein

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Equation for the Trajectory• Taking t = 0 to be when the ball rolls off theedge, <strong>and</strong> the origin O at that point,xy== −v t0x12gt2from which( ) 0xy= − g v x2 2/2 .The st<strong>and</strong>ard parabola equation is y = ax 2 , sothis is half of an upside-down parabola.

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