{"id":22014,"date":"2020-04-20T20:58:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T00:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=22014"},"modified":"2020-04-20T20:58:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T00:58:54","slug":"cannonball-at-a-fixed-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=22014","title":{"rendered":"Cannonball at a fixed angle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/physics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#physics<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/math?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#math<\/a> fact\u2014if you shoot a cannonball at a fixed angle with greater &amp; greater speed, its trajectory will approach a triangular shape (taking drag into account).<br><br>Can you figure out why? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9D9FnQM9CX\">pic.twitter.com\/9D9FnQM9CX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Arnaldo Rodriguez-Gonzalez (@Arnaldo_AGITF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arnaldo_AGITF\/status\/1252333250896429064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22015,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22014\/revisions\/22015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}