In 1609 Galileo proved mathematically that the trajectory of a body
falling with a horizontal velocity component is a parabola. His
search for an experimental setting in which horizontal motion was not
affected appreciably (to study inertia) let him to construct a certain
apparatus. The data comes from one of his experiments.
Usage
case1001
Format
A data frame with 7 observations on the following 2 variables.
Distance
horizontal distances (in punti)
Height
initial height (in punti)
Source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A
Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.