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give the reason why the horizontal component of the velocity of a projectile remains the same at every point of its flight

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Because ...

-- If you ignore air resistance ... which we always do for these problems ... then there's NO horizontal force acting on the projectile.

-- Since there's no horizontal force on the projectile, its horizontal acceleration is zero.

-- Since the projectile has no horizontal acceleration, the horizontal component of its velocity is constant.
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