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In this lab, you'll use physics and projectile motion formulae to try and hit your teacher with a water balloon! Get the calculations right, and you get a 100% on the lab!
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It's easy to ignore air resistance in our calculations, but if we were actually trying to calculate the trajectory of a bullet or other projectile, we would not be able to simply ignore such an important function. At the link below, you can find a paper that explains a bit about all the other information that we would need to include in order to make an accurate calculation, including the density of the air, a factor called the Reynolds number,
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