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Mplwp ballistic trajectories velocities.svg
Forfatter/Opretter: Geek3, Licens: CC BY 3.0
Plot of a ballistic trajectory with air resistance. The trajectory follows the differential equation ${\displaystyle {\ddot {\vec {r}}}(t)=-k\,v\cdot {\vec {v}}-g\cdot {\hat {\vec {y}}}}$ with initial conditions ${\displaystyle {\vec {r}}(0)={\vec {0}},\;{\dot {\vec {r}}}(0)=v_{0}({\hat {\vec {x}}}\cos(\alpha _{0})+{\hat {\vec {y}}}\sin(\alpha _{0}))}$.

The parameters are:

• ${\displaystyle g=1}$, ${\displaystyle k=1}$, ${\displaystyle \alpha _{0}=45^{\circ }}$
• The initial velocity takes the values ${\displaystyle v_{0}=2}$, ${\displaystyle v_{0}=4}$, ${\displaystyle v_{0}=6}$, ${\displaystyle v_{0}=8}$, ${\displaystyle v_{0}=10}$

The differential equation is solved numerically using Scipy odeint.