Practice Book For Conceptual Integrated Science
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Author: Paul G. Hewitt, Suzanne A Lyons, John A. Suchocki, Jennifer Yeh
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Chapter 5, Problem 87TE
In the absence of air drag, why doesn’t the horizontal component of the ball’s motion change while the vertical component does change?
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