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Teen solves Newton's 300-year-old riddle
- ColinWright 14y agoThere's a follow-up here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034487 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034487 This to accompany some previous submissions: * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4028756 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4028756 * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029599 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029599 * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029676 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029676 * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031332 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031332 * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031625 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031625 * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034225 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034225 * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4046994 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4046994 Consensus seems to be that he's found a closed-form solution of a 2D projectile with friction proportional to the square of the velocity: * http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/u7551/teen_solves_newtons_300yearold_riddle_an/c4sxd91 http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/u7551/teen_solves... * http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/150242/teenager-solves-newton-dynamics-problem-where-is-the-paper http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/150242/teenager-solv...