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Old 10-01-2013 | 03:35 PM
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From: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
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Originally Posted by UncleNorby
Ok, this got me thinking. In my brain, something is telling me that an arrow shot straight down will go faster than an arrow shot straight up, over the same distance. Can anyone provide an argument to that? If this does happen, can anyone estimate what the difference in speed would be within say, 20 yards?

I know this is not the explanation for the guy shooting high.
In most coordinated systems you note gravity as -9.81m/s2. There for using a simple displacement formula would prove you correct.
Easier put, ignoring friction coeficients, shooting down is (-), (-) and (-) = greater magnitude. Shooting up is (+), so (-) and (+) = lesser magnitude.

I do not have time to do the actual calculations right now.
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