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I decided to implement my drag rk4 model on earth, mars and the moon. This part was mainly integrating a system which uses different gravity values and air density values for different planets(which i got off google), into the rk4 model that i made previously. Due to the moon having 0 air density, the model predicted a graph with no drag, identical to the anaylitical curve in a vacuum. For mars, I learnt that the surface has a 11km thick layer of co2, which decreases with altitude(a decay function). I also included this to vary the drag for different altitude for the mars model.

Here i have compared the 3 models, with same initial parameters. In the 2nd graph, Im only comparing mars and earth to see how big of an effect drag has on the projectile.

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