Some Geometric Objects Related to a Classical Problem of Galileo

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to CMJ editor Dominic Klyve for comments that improved the paper. We would also like to thank anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions.

Summary

The paper describes two admirable curves—Galileo’s poleaxe and the folium of Galileo—and one admirable surface—Galileo’s dome—related to the Galileo’s classical problem about the motion of a body thrown at some angle to the horizon.

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Notes on contributors

Zarema Seidametova

Zarema Seidametova ([email protected], MR ID 1314219, ORCID 0000-0001-7643-6386) received her Ph.D. in fluid mechanics from Tashkent State University and her science degree doctor of sciences in Computer Science Education from Dragomanov National Pedagogical University in Kyiv, Ukraine. She held visiting positions at Educational Testing Service (Princeton, NJ) and Duke University (Durham, NC). She is member of ACM. She is professor and head of the Applied Computer Science Department, Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University.

Valerii Temnenko

Valerii Temnenko ([email protected], MR ID 255177, ORCID 0000-0002-9355-9086) studied in Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and Crimean State University. He took post-graduate course in Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. He received his Ph.D. in fluid mechanics from Moscow State University. He worked as associate professor of the Applied Mathematics Department, Tavrian National University. Now he is retired.