Terminology and Definitions

This subsection provides a list of terms that are used in the subsequent sections and their meaning, with the purpose of reducing ambiguity and making it easier to correctly understand the requirements.

• Launcher: Where the projectile is launched from and the device that does the launching.
• Projectile: The object to be launched at the target.
• Target: Where the projectile should be launched to.
• Gravity: The force that attracts one physical body with mass to another.
• Cartesian coordinate system: A coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a set of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular oriented lines, measured in the same unit of length (from cartesianWiki).
• Rectilinear: Occurring in one dimension.