[Jon Stratis]

When I see something like this, I just have to ask... which is more time-intensive, spending hours or days figuring out difficult, theoretical equations and then attempting to apply them to a real world that doesn't exactly match the equations, or just doing a little trial and error, plotting the results and doing a line of best fit on the data to give you the appropriate angle and shooter speed?

Don't get me wrong, understanding the equations and how those equations differ from reality is important... but that's something that you'll learn in physics class, using structured experiments designed to teach it.