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They fall at the same rate. So if you aim at an object before it falls from a height and shoot just as it is released then the projectile will hit the falling object. This happens because gravity is always the same (at small heights) and has the same effect on the object with no horizontal displacement as it does on the projectile with horizontal displacement.

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Projectile motion is the motion of an object that is going up from the surface of earth in an angle. Safe to say it falls under motion in a plane. Imagine you throw a ball at an angle of say 45deg. So the ball will rise up to that level where all of its kinetic energy has been converted into potential energy. This is made possible because of gravity.

Now this ball falls down in the same way it rose up. It will make a symmetrical parabolic path till the point where the energy of the ball is same as it had when it was thrown.

Free fall is not a projectile motion. Assuming no air friction a ball left from the top of a tower follows a uniform path in 1 dimension. But if the ball was thrown at an angle then it would classified as a projectile motion.

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The downward component of the acceleration vector of a projectile is the same as the acceleration of an object falling straight down, 9.8 m/s^2 minus the upward component of the effect of drag.

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In physics, a projectile moves vertically as well as in a horizontal direction. However, an object in vertical free-fall is moving only downward.

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Because there is vertical force acting on the projectile (hint: the force of gravity),

whereas there is no horizontal force acting on it.

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No, the angle of the vector determines both the horizontal and vertical motion.

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Yes, that's a true statement.

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