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  2. Parabola of safety - Wikipedia

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    The paraboloid of revolution obtained by rotating the safety parabola around the vertical axis is the boundary of the safety zone, consisting of all points that cannot be hit by a projectile shot from the given point with the given speed.

  3. Parabolic trajectory - Wikipedia

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    The green path in this image is an example of a parabolic trajectory. A parabolic trajectory is depicted in the bottom-left quadrant of this diagram, where the gravitational potential well of the central mass shows potential energy, and the kinetic energy of the parabolic trajectory is shown in red.

  4. Parabola - Wikipedia

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    The parabola is a member of the family of conic sections. In mathematics, a parabola is a plane curve which is mirror-symmetrical and is approximately U-shaped. It fits several superficially different mathematical descriptions, which can all be proved to define exactly the same curves.

  5. Projectile motion - Wikipedia

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    A ballistic trajectory is a parabola with homogeneous acceleration, such as in a space ship with constant acceleration in absence of other forces. On Earth the acceleration changes magnitude with altitude as g ( y ) = g 0 / ( 1 + y / R ) 2 {\textstyle g(y)=g_{0}/(1+y/R)^{2}} and direction (faraway targets) with latitude/longitude along the ...

  6. Universal parabolic constant - Wikipedia

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    The universal parabolic constant is the red length divided by the green length. The universal parabolic constant is a mathematical constant.. It is defined as the ratio, for any parabola, of the arc length of the parabolic segment formed by the latus rectum to the focal parameter.

  7. Parabolic - Wikipedia

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    Parabolic usually refers to something in a shape of a parabola, but may also refer to a parable. Parabolic may refer to: In mathematics: In elementary mathematics, especially elementary geometry: Parabolic coordinates; Parabolic cylindrical coordinates; parabolic Möbius transformation; Parabolic geometry (disambiguation) Parabolic spiral ...

  8. Cycloid - Wikipedia

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    A cycloid generated by a rolling circle. In geometry, a cycloid is the curve traced by a point on a circle as it rolls along a straight line without slipping. A cycloid is a specific form of trochoid and is an example of a roulette, a curve generated by a curve rolling on another curve.

  9. Muller's method - Wikipedia

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    Muller's method fits a parabola, i.e. a second-order polynomial, to the last three obtained points f(x k-1), f(x k-2) and f(x k-3) in each iteration. One can generalize this and fit a polynomial p k,m (x) of degree m to the last m+1 points in the k th iteration. Our parabola y k is written as p k,2 in this notation.