Simulation Of Projectile Motion

What do you aim to achieve / what is our objective?

Our objective is to write a computer program (C Program) to simulate a bomb, which is the projectile, being released from an aircraft, and we will provide the user with the probability of which the bomb will hit a building, with gravity as the only force acting on the bomb (other factors such as air resistance can be added in to make the situation more realistic).

So, why are we doing this / what is the rationale for doing this?

When a bombing mission is to be carried out, the pilots of the bombers will have to constantly be aware of where their bombs will land or how accurate their bombs will be in hitting the targeted installations or facilities.

The precision is important because it can reduce the unwanted casualty of the surrounding civilians.

However, sending thousands of planes to each drop a bomb to investigate the hit probability would be resource consuming and may cause casualties, as such we would be using computer simulation to simulate the bombing of thousands or possibly millions of planes.

The rationales behind using computer simulations are to prevent waste of materials and there are no real life casualties, thus being a more cost-efficient and resource-efficient method for researching on this field of research.