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Projrctile motion in three dimensions

For no air resistence and resistance linearly proportional to the velocity, we do not
get any different results from that obtained in the case of two dimensional
projectile motion. An interesting situation is one in which three are crosswinds
resulting in a drift force fa in the y direction, as shown in fig. 6.25 . the resulting
equations of motion are

Which in componentfrom may be written as

These may be solved as before, yielding almost the same result. We leave this as
an exercise

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