On the rise and fall of a ball with linear or quadratic drag

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 538-546

  Timmerman, Peter ^a   Van Der Weele, Jacobus P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0033407885     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.19320     Document Type: Article

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