Talk:Projectile motion

message: Well, Projectile Motion is something I learned in Physics. I am trying to find out myself. So I am not sure.
Vinny P.
Projectile motion is a two dimensional motion under constant acceleration due to gravity.
182.188.168.232 (talk) 16:58, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Projectile motion part of physics 

message: Added the no-references template, but that's the least of the problems...
The Trajectory article has more details but it too is neither well-written nor well-organized, especially for someone who might consult an encyclopedia to try to learn a bit about this topic. For a standard high-school subject that one could expect students to look up here, these articles are, IMHO, really unacceptable...
For a far more detailed and accessible (I think...) treatment of this material, go to www.geogebra.org/en/upload and scroll down to and click on the /nikenuke directory. Once in there, click the /projectilePDF directory and a whole bunch of PDF papers will be available. These papers will provide a lot of analysis, some of which is beyond high-school level, but several of them should still be useful.
While in the /nikenuke directory, click on the projectile HTML files, with Java enabled, to run these simulations.
As time permits I will re-write this article, and see about the Trajectory one also.
[Sorry, I forgot to sign this the other day.] Rb88guy (talk) 14:39, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs a LOT of work 

message: The article does not say anything about history. The equations in the article use gravity(each equations comes into air resistance) which was a value known to Galileo and calculated by him. Vector analysis is also used but that branch of mathematics is attributed to Gibbs and Heaviside who lived much later. Who worked and formulated the projectile motion equations then????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
ICE77 (talk) 02:59, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of projectile motion 

message: We should ignore air resistance when calculating these things. But in real air resistance greatly affects the max. height and Range. But in the article under the section of 'The maximum distance of projectile', it is stated: Air resistance does not affect displacement of projectile. Is it true? I studied in many books that air resistance affects both height and horizontal distance.--G.Kiruthikan (talk) 15:29, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air resistance should affect the horizontal displacement 

message: Can anyone work out what the Korean painting has got to do with projectile motion? The title (King Shooting Arrows) promises something to do with parabolic trajectories but I can't see any moving arrows. By coincidence the volcano just below the centre seems to be shooting out hot rocks with parabolic trajectories, but the text doesn't make any mention of that. --Heron (talk) 14:07, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Projectile motion in art, where? 

message: Request received to merge articles: Projectile motion and Trajectory of a projectile; dated April 2016.  Discussion here. Richard3120 (talk) 19:40, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes....they are the same topic....one just goes into a bit more depth about a certain component of it, but a single article could cover them both perfectly well. Reywas92Talk 06:24, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger Discussion 

message: How are the equations for projectile motion modified if the projectile travels a distance long enough that the curve of the Earth's surface cannot be ignored? Inkan1969 (talk) 04:17, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Curve of the Earth 

message: Show that there are two values of time for the same height during the course of flight of projectile and the sum of timings at which these heights are attained is equal to the total time of flight Monicakimaro (talk) 07:43, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Physics 

message: same concept fgnievinski (talk) 19:38, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it. The most important reason for studying projectile motion is to know if it will reach the enemy. --Wtshymanski (talk) 20:10, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it 2603:6080:8F02:AB35:A17A:DD81:2FE2:1792 (talk) 02:51, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

text: Go for it. Its nice to have all the same physics in one place. It will be helpful for physics students like me...Huzaifa abedeen (talk) 15:23, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

text: Go for it. They're so utterly related, range is just one small component of the greater topic of projectile motion. It's like having separate pages for jumping and height of jumping. -- Neomayer (talk) 16:47, 19 Nov 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Range of a projectile]] into [[Projectile motion]] 

message: I noticed a few very important things have been removed from the article. A few months ago, it was very rich. I remember it had pretty much everything. Equations to calculate time, maximum range, height, derivations, 2D trajectories, etc. It even had projectile motion in a non-uniform gravitational field and taking into account the curvature of the planet and it had a python code to numerically simulate a projectile in air resistance. Where is all that now? Looks like someone removed 80% of the article for no reason. Anyone know why this happened and if I can find all this again somewhere else? Dimitris45 (talk) 17:31, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reverted the edits made by @LaundryPizza03 on 8 April 2021. I have restored this Wikipedia to this version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Projectile_motion&oldid=1014083173. If anybody having any problem please let us know here why? Huzaifa abedeen (talk) 02:49, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It's almost certainly because almost everything is unreferenced, and given WP:OR, that means that it shouldn't be there. However, that should be fixable if someone check the text and references from their favorite physics textbook. Klbrain (talk) 16:03, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a code repository. Even if referenced, that material shouldn't be there. And the rest looks like a violation of WP:NOTTEXTBOOK and/or WP:INDISCRIMINATE to me. XOR'easter (talk) 22:40, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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