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Setting up Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to simulate projectile motion.
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Access Physics Simulating Projectile Motion Using Microsoft Excel V.J. Clarke Setting up Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to simulate projectile motion. The study of the motion of a projectile, called ballistics can be simulated mathematically by use of a spreadsheet, i.e. Microsoft Excel. To create a simulation, a few assumptions have to be made about the projectile, its launch device, and the forces acting on it in a perfect situation. The mass of the projectile is irrelevant because the acceleration due to gravity is roughly the same wherever you are on Earth, and what ever the mass of the object. I assumed that acceleration due to gravity was a constant 9.8 meters/s/s, that air resistance was negligible, and that the projectile itself was suitably streamlined to reduce drag. In fact, for calculations concerning short-range projectile motion, air resistance can be totally disregarded, but calculations concerning real life long-range artillery would need to include a compensation factor to make...
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