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Re: Horizontal Bar: Vertical Velocity

Of course, you are all assuming that the object, let's call it "projectile," is decellerating at the gravitational constant! If you were to give it the initial velocity of 10 ft/s, as well as give it an acceleration in midair somehow (get to that pneumatics drawing board), you would be able to send it wherever you wanted to! Particularly if you were to give it an acceleration of, oh say 9.81 m/s/s.
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