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Thabit's parábola quadrature: an approach through kinematical results

The Thabit's area formula of a segment of a parabola is reconsidered. Use is made of the properties of the projectile launch describing a parabolic trajectory, as routinely exposed in introductory Physics courses. This treatment emphasizes the relationship between Mathematics and Physics, and it is also a recreation for some historic pre-calculus arguments

Keywords:
Parabola's quadrature; kinematics; Arabic science


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