Abstract
Early in the seventeenth century, Galileo did extensive studies of bodies falling near the earth’s surface. Bodies projected with a component of velocity tangent to the earth’s surface—cannonballs, for example—are called projectiles.
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Seaborn, J.B. (1998). The Gravity of It All. In: Understanding the Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0689-7_7
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