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Ballistics of Galileo

©Fernando Caracena 31 August 2012 Independent motions One of Galileo's great discoveries is that motion in three dimensions can be decomposed into three separate motions along each of three mutually orthogonal directions. Specifically, up and down motions are governed by … Continue reading

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