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Grade 12Mechanics

Let us assume a particle is projected with velocity v at some angle, in addition to the gravity it is subjected to a non zero horizontal acceleration, Please show what will be the plot of the projectile motion i.e. graph of y vs x

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11 Years agoGrade 12
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11 Years ago
The path of the particle will be

(gx-ay)^2=2(u_yx-u_xy)(au_y-gu_x)

It’s the general equation of a curve in 2D plane and can be drawn only in special case.

Two special cases are:
1) a = 0, Parabolic path
2)au_y=gu_x, Straight line path