Due Dec 9, 2005

In this worksheet, you are to define a suitable physics problem of your choice, and write well-documented C++ code to solve it.

Here is a possible suggestion for the problem: At what angle should an object be thrown to cause it to travel the greatest possible horizontal distance, and what is that distance, as a function of the initial velocity? To make it interesting, assume there is a force due to air resistance that varies as velocity to the power p. A reasonable range for the power p might be from 1 to 2. Investigate various ratios of the initial velocity to the terminal velocity.