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Free fall with initial velocity


The acceleration a experienced by the particle, once it has been launched vertically upward, has been described in a previous page, where we came to the conclusion that it is given by

a = - g = (
0
-g
)

We found that the particle has no acceleration in the horizontal x direction (ax = 0), whereas its acceleration in the vertical y direction is given by gravity (ay = -g) and is independent of the mass m of the particle.






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