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To: E. Charters who wrote (86550)	6/6/2002 3:32:06 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116832

No it's not really true that today's 2nd year physics or math students will not be able to calculate the trajectories of missiles. They can if you give them a pc and the necessary software. All they have to do is to enter the numbers in and voila! out comes the points for the trajectory which may be printed on a graph etc. However, doing straight calculations unaided by calculator or pc would be a big problem. I don't believe they know enough math to do the calculations. BTW, though Fourier spent more time personally with Napoleon during his campaigns, I believe it was Simon de Laplace (later honored by Napoleon as a Comte) who worked out the detailed math on trajectories. (Fourier, Laplace, Lagrange, Monge and Carnot were contemporaries with Napoleon).