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		didibus on Oct 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are s... I'm a bit confused, how does a 2D graph with a curved X axis work? Does this just mean to say that if we saw things distorted with an outward curve, then something that is moving in a curve would look to be moving in a straight line? And what's the point of such an observation?

aeternum on Oct 18, 2020 [–]

The polar or cylindrical coordinate systems are examples of graphs that can be though of as having a curved x-axis.

bawolff on Oct 19, 2020 | [–]

Sure, but that is irrelavent since the topic at hand is neither a polar nor cylindrical graph.

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