In part I of this post, I talked about the basics of projectile motion with no air resistance. Also in that post, I showed that (without air resistance) the angle to throw a ball for maximum range is ...

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To that end, the designer wields wisdom and designs a streamlined body that seems to have less air resistance, but how much does fuel cost change by lowering air resistance at all? Let's take a look ...

So I was checking out one of my favorite crackpot sites and the contention was made that if you take two steel balls (I think it was 1" steel bearings) and spin one at 27000rpms and launch them both ...

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