Resumen de Matter gravitates, but does gravity matter?

C. W. Groetsch

• The interplay of physical intuition, computational evidence, and mathematical rigor in a simple trajectory model is explored. A thought experiment based on the model is used to elicit student conjectures on the influence of a physical parameter; a mathematical model suggests a computational investigation of the conjectures, and rigorous analysis at the level of elementary calculus is used to settle the issue.