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Here's a relatively quick read (press the "next" buttons under the "Guided Tour" section to get to the other 3 slides) from NASA.

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/VirtualAero/BottleRocket/a...

The "wrong" answers all have a bit of truth to them, but aren't the whole picture. As with many complex mathematical models, it is difficult to convert the math into English and maintain precisely the correct meaning.

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> The "wrong" answers all have a bit of truth to them, but aren't the whole picture. As with many complex mathematical models, it is difficult to convert the math into English and maintain precisely the correct meaning.

Exactly. The comments in this subthread are turning imprecision in language into all-or-nothing judgments of correctness. (Meanwhile, 80% of the comments advance their own incorrect/imprecise explanations of the same thing...)

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