S1E3 : Understanding Projectile Motion: Beyond the Parabolic Approximation
from Science is all around you ! Hosted by Alessio Guarino
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/
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