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Anything thrown hard enough that physics stops asking your permission.
means An object hurled, launched, or propelled through the air, moving under the force given to it rather than its own power.
from From Latin proicere, "to throw forth" — pro- ("forward") plus iacere ("to throw"), the same iacere that hurled us "eject," "inject," and "trajectory." The word arrived through scientific Latin (projectilis) in the 17th century, when natural philosophers were busy working out exactly how cannonballs arc — so "projectile" was born already half-tangled in the mathematics of flying things.
- no engine
- True projectiles coast on momentum, not power
- vomit qualifies
- Medical term for the dramatically airborne kind
- arc geometry
- Gravity bends every path into a parabola
- thrown chair
- Becomes a projectile the instant it leaves hands
- speed record
- Plasma jets exceed seven kilometers per second
apollo 10 command module — reached 39,897 km/h in 1969, fastest crewed object ever
parker solar probe — nasa spacecraft reached 586 km/s in 2021, fastest object ever built
tsar bomba — soviet nuclear warhead, 50 megatons, detonated 1961 over novaya zemlya