De la Terre à la Lune: Did Jules Verne Get the Escape Velocity Right?
Channel: Stefan Bracher
Date: 10/04/2020

In 1865, Jules Verne published the novel "De la Terre à la Lune" - From the Earth to the Moon. In chapter three, he claims that to shoot a projectile to the moon, it would have to leave the canon with a speed of 12'000 yards/s.

Is this number correct? Let's use Universal Gravity, Conservation of Energy and Calculus to verify.

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