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🪂 Newtonian Gravity - 2D Free Fall with Air Drag and a Vacuum Twin

2D companion of the Newtonian gravity sim: a falling object with quadratic air drag beside its vacuum twin, force arrows, speed against time with the exact tanh solution, impact speed against height and checks against the analytic motion.

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Newtonian Gravity - 2D Free Fall with Air Drag and a Vacuum Twin ↗ Open standalone
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2D companion of the Newtonian gravity sim: a falling object with quadratic air drag beside its vacuum twin, force arrows, speed against time with the exact tanh solution, impact speed against height and checks against the analytic motion.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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