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(William M. Connolley 20:37, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)) Why -v_x?

Notice that body moves in a negative direction of x coordinate. In order to show projection of speed vector on the coordinate axes you have to use negative x axis. This is purely for visualization 0.39 04:46, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)