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Which of the sports listed will produce a graph like the one below?Explain why you chose the sport you did and give reasons why you did not choose the other sports.

Archery High Jumping

Biking Javelin Throwing

Fishing Pole Vaulting

Golf Skate Boarding

High Diving Sky Diving

Originally Posted by DEVIKA.T

Which of the sports listed will produce a graph like the one below

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Originally Posted by DEVIKA.T

Which of the sports listed will produce a graph like the one below?Explain why you chose the sport you did and give reasons why you did not choose the other sports.

Archery High Jumping

Biking Javelin Throwing

Fishing Pole Vaulting

Golf Skate Boarding

High Diving Sky Diving

All parabolas.

All traveling bodies on earth travel in parabolic shapes.

Originally Posted by ThePerfectHacker

All parabolas.

All traveling bodies on earth travel in parabolic shapes.

Well, the center of mass of the object follows a parabolic trajectory anyway. For example the hook end of the fishing pole would not if the rod were cast mid-flight.

-Dan