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A projectile refers to an object, point type or solid, that was launched into an orbit or ballistic trajectory and is typically traveling at high velocity.

A projectile refers to an object, point type or solid, that was launched into an orbit or ballistic trajectory and is typically traveling at high velocity.

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Move a bullet in its rotation direction

I'm creating a top down 2D game. Here is the code that makes my player instantiate the bullet: public GameObject bullet; void Update () { if (Input.GetButton("Fire1") && Time.time > nextFire) { nextFire = Time.time +…
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How do I configure Kalman Filter and define a state vector to model a projectile motion correctly?

I am experimenting with Kalman filter implementation of Matlab. I wish to model the motion of a ball tossed up by a child in the air using Kalman filter. I have manually annotated the position of the ball in the image frames to use as measurements…
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How to move a 3D projectile Unity

I am trying to understand the process for creating a 3D projectile in Unity. Of the few online posts about creating a regular, laser-like projectile, there is very little explanation about the process. Can someone please help me understand like a…
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Animating the path of a projectile in python

I am trying to animate the path of a projectile launched with an initial velocity at an initial angle. I attempted to modify the code found here: http://matplotlib.org/examples/animation/simple_anim.html My code looks like this: import numpy as…
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emacs projectile: override vcs mode

GNU Emacs 24.3.1 + projectile 0.11.0 (installed using melpa) When I try to find a file (C-c p f) in an svn project (https) it takes ages before the completion comes up. Additionally I require a secure VPN connection which is not always active. From…
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How to calculate impulse needed to push ball to the exact position?

I'm looking for the answer for quite long time but I still haven't found solution. I'm creating a simple game using Swift/SpriteKit and the rules are also simple. Player touches screen and ball goes to the touch location in a parabolic trajectory.…
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Get a parabola/arc based on vertex and a point

I'm trying to get a character to throw something in an arc at a target. I know the vertex(x,y) and the target(x,y) and I want to get an arc from the origin(x,y) to the target with a max height of vertex.y What I have is based off the vertex form of…
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LibGdx catapult trajectory

I'm trying to create a projectile, which when fired will behave as if it was shoot from catapult. The problem is to calculate trajectory. I have starting position. Also target is the closest enemy. I tried to implement this formula, which I found…
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Minecraft Bukkit - How can I use item entities and falling block entities as projectiles?

Sorry about this question, I think I may have asked before but this website is confusing and I just simply can't find it anywhere. I'm a Java plugin developer who is currently in a Data Structures and Algorithms class, if it helps to know how much…
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getting wrong values for time and height for projectile motion

I'm writing a program in C that finds the time of flight and height at impact of a projectile and my program is compiling, but it's coming out with the wrong values for the solutions. Any idea what I might be doing wrong? /* *Finds final time and…
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Projectile Motion of an Object

My object is currently only going in a straight line at the set angle using the following code: this.time = this.time + deltaTime; // Vertical : Speed * Sine * Angle double vy = (this.speed * Math.sin(this.angle)) + this.ax*this.time ; …
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Projectile Rotation in Unity3D

I want to simulate a projectile motion. I use the following Code if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")) { Rigidbody clone; clone = Instantiate(projectile, transform.position+ new Vector3(0f,0f,2f), transform.rotation) as Rigidbody; …
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How to define codependent functions in Python?

I need to plot the position of a particle at time t, given the following formulae: s(t) = -0.5*g(s)*t^2+v0*t, where g(s) = G*M/(R+s(t))^2 (G, M, and R are constants, s being a value, not the function s(t)). The particle is being shot up vertically,…
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Physics - Projectile get launch angle to hit desired location?

I am programming a simple ball projectile in a game. the update pretty much looks like: velocity += gravity; velocity *=0.9; pos += vel; Is there a way to set the angle and power of the launch in order to hit a point that is specified with the…
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Projectile Motion using ode45 in Matlab

I'm trying to model projectile motion with drag in Matlab. Everything works perfectly....except I can't figure out how to get it to stop when the "bullet" hits the ground. I initially tried an iteration loop, defining a data array, and emptying…
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