The path that an object takes when thrown at an angle other than 90 degrees from a horizontal point is known as a trajectory, the object is known as a projectile, and the motion is defined as the projectile motion. Football, baseball, cricket ball, and any other object are instances of projectile motion.
There are many types of motion around us. Projectile motion is a form of motion experienced by an object or particle that is thrown near the Earth’s surface and moves along a curved path under the action of gravity only (in particular, the effects of air resistance are assumed to be negligible). Such an object is called a projectile and the curved path with which the projectile travels is what is termed as trajectory.
Formulae related to a projectile that is launched at an oblique angle with respect to the horizontal and whose motion is referred with respect to the horizontal are:
(v θ is the velocity of projection,
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