⚽ Football Free-Kick Flight Lab: Quadratic Drag and Magnus Curve with an RK4 Angle Experiment — 2D Cross-Section
A size-5 football is launched with adjustable speed, angle, backspin and sidespin; quadratic air drag and the Magnus lift force are integrated with fourth-order Runge-Kutta. A live experiment sweeps the launch angle and compares the simulated range with the vacuum formula v^2 sin(2a)/g.
⚙ Under the hood
A size-5 football is launched with adjustable speed, angle, backspin and sidespin; quadratic air drag and the Magnus lift force are integrated with fourth-order Runge-Kutta. A live experiment sweeps the launch angle and compares the simulated range with the vacuum formula v^2 sin(2a)/g.
Magnus EffectAir DragProjectile MotionRunge-KuttaFootball
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install