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Projectile Focus

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Phil Todd

@polymnia

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You are shooting a projectile on a sloping field.  Drag the red point to change the angle of the projectile and try and maximize |AB|.

Click the button to see the focus of the parabola.

What do you notice?

Tags: parabola, projectile, range
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