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by meditative 2073 days ago
it will look like a parabola (or ellipsis if you read elsewhere in this thread) if you add another dimension to your graph of the balls position.

That could be a physical dimension, such as throwing a ball to your friend across the room and plotting x vs y. Or even plotting the height of the ball against time.

https://imgur.com/a/ccBDZf6

consider the x-axis of this image the distance between you and your friend, or time.