We modeled the flight of a throwing knife in MatLab to determine what initial conditions of the throw (initial angle, speed, and distance) would result in the knife sticking in the target.
To validate our model, we took footage of different people throwing knives from a range of distances.
Once we figured out the initial angle of the knife and the throwing speeds of me and my partner, our model was fairly accurate in predicting whether or not the knife would stick to the target.