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Dropping a stick down with an angle
Let's say that we drop a stick down with an angle, meaning that the stick is not parallel to the ground. Assume there is only gravity. Is it correct that the orientation of the stick will not change ...
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Why arrow stays tangent to its trajectory? [duplicate]
I'm making custom game engine, with custom physics simulation. I ran into a problem while trying to simulate arrows. Here is what I got for now:
The problem is, I don't understand clearly why arrows ...
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If I toss a coin, vertically, on the surface of Mars, will it land back in my hand?
When I toss a coin in Mars, is the planets atmosphere rare enough that I'd rotate with the planet (at its angular velocity), but not the coin?
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If a bullet is fired vertically upwards, when it comes back does it fall to the same spot? [duplicate]
What I'm basically asking is that if a body is projected with sufficiently high velocity so that it doesn't escape from the earth's gravitational field but reaches an appreciable height with respect ...
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