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⚽ 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.

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Football Free-Kick Flight Lab: Quadratic Drag and Magnus Curve with an RK4 Angle Experiment — 2D Cross-Section ↗ Open standalone
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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

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