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Originally Posted by oswaldonfire

One of our programming mentors whipped up this web-based trajectory calculator for the Frisbees used in this year's Ultimate Ascent game:

http://drjohnstechtalk.com/trajFrisbee/

This is based on the work The Aerodynamics of Frisbee Flight from the Undergraduate Journal of Mathemaical Modelling.

Link, please?

The trajectory calculation runs until either the Frisbee reaches the goal height while travelling downwards...

Just wondering, why not upwards, too? From the videos I've seen, there will be a lot of "upwards" shooting.

Does your mentor ever participate on CD? I'm interested in his modeling approach and would like to know more about it.