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.
 
https://blog.univ-reunion.fr/alessioguarino/2024/09/27/physics-heresy-projectiles-dont-actually-make-parabolas/

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. https://blog.univ-reunion.fr/alessioguarino/2024/09/27/physics-heresy-projectiles-dont-actually-make-parabolas/

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.
 
https://blog.univ-reunion.fr/alessioguarino/2024/09/27/physics-heresy-projectiles-dont-actually-make-parabolas/

S1E3 : Understanding Projectile Motion: Beyond the Parabolic Approximation

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S1E3 : Understanding Projectile Motion: Beyond the Parabolic Approximation