Intro
This year’s FIRST FRC challenge involves moving around a large ball. The trajectory will not be a simple parabola as in the case for motion in a gravitational field in a vacuum, because drag will play a sizable roll. I used standard equations of motion which take into account drag to offer up this interactive trajectory plotter.
Enjoy!
Trajectory and interactive plotter of a large, light ball
References
Look, the physics hasn’t changed since the challenge of a couple years ago when the motion of smaller, heavier foam balls was the challenge. Drag is drag. So I really didn’t have much to do at all but to recognize that I could liberally steal from my previous effort: Deluscious foam ball trajectory