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Originally Posted by jwb
I guess that makes sense. So if you graphed the ball being thrown on Earth and the one on the moon, both would just be different shaped parabolas?
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Yep! It's just a matter of a different number for the strength of the gravitational field. The parabolic shape of the graph results because acceleration is constant.
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/...nsional-motion
That's a pretty good overview if you want to get a deeper sense of what's going on. (Admittedly I haven't watched it in years, but iirc he does a good job of explaining everything clearly without dumbing it down.) No calculus required.
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Can’t? Or is it just not practical for basic physics?
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In terms of the model of Newtonian physics, you can't, as in it's impossible.