https://github.com/ryan-williams/trajectories

Simulations of parabolic trajectories
https://github.com/ryan-williams/trajectories

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Simulations of parabolic trajectories

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ryan-williams/trajectories
• Owner: ryan-williams
• Created: 2015-03-29T05:07:10.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-04-13T18:40:44.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-20T07:45:17.841Z (3 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 629 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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Toy repository for playing a physics problem I've thought about a few times:

What is the optimal angle to shoot/throw a projectile at to maximize distance traveled along a surface that is elevated relative to its origin?

![](http://f.cl.ly/items/2j273O002p3H371H3S3L/Screen%20Recording%202015-04-13%20at%2002.18%20PM.gif)

* the red line is always showing the 45º arc, which is optimal if the surface you are shooting/throwing on to is level with you.

* the green line is the arc from the origin that just barely clears the "cliff"

* the blue line is the path that maximizes the distance to the landing point on the top of the cliff.

* The black and grey paths can be dragged around as just an example of an arbitrary path in the space, or to change the velocity; they can mostly be ignored here.

Run with:

```

nodemon server.js

```

This is largely an experiment for me to get comfortable building React components for SVGs.