Optimization of projectile motion under linear air resistance

DOI10.1007/s12215-015-0205-yzbMath1331.49026OpenAlexW2211928132MaRDI QIDQ903061

Robert Kantrowitz, Michael M. Neumann

Publication date: 4 January 2016

Published in: Rendiconti del Circolo Matemàtico di Palermo. Serie II (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12215-015-0205-y

zbMATH Keywords

enveloping functionoptimal launch angleprojectile ballistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of optimal control and differential games (49N90) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15)

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Cites Work

• Some real analysis behind optimization of projectile motion
• Projectile Motion: Resistance Is Fertile
• Halley's Comment-Projectiles with Linear Resistance
• Tartaglia's Inverse Problem in a Resistive Medium
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