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What does the horizontal motion have?

Projectile motion has two components, horizontal (x) and vertical (y) as can be seen below.

Asked by Siobhan.bond, Last updated: Mar 02, 2024

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Answered Nov 16, 2018

Constant velocity

In projectile motion the x and y components are considered independently. Therefore even though acceleration due to the force of gravity is present vertically, theoretically if this is the only force then the horizontal velocity would not change and is constant.
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