OK, so I have a golf-ish game where there is a ball that moves around the screen with separate x and y velocities which vary based on an angle chosen before the ball is hit. This all works perfectly fine, the ball bounces off the walls, etc. But when I try to apply friction to the ball's movement, I encounter some issues.

The process I am using to scale down my velocity vector while maintaining the same angle of motion is as follows:
   1. Find the magnitude of the vector
   2. Normalize the vector
   3. Decrease the value of the magnitude by a friction constant
   4. Multiply x and y velocity components by the new magnitude
My code looks like this:
.PUTTPUTT
P*16**cos(θ)->V             //P represents power, used to determine how fast the ball will move
P*16**sin(θ)->W             //V is the X-velocity; W is the Y-velocity
Repeat getKey(15)
 Pt-On(X+V->X/256, Y+W->Y/256, Pic0)     //X and Y are the position components
 127*W//sin(tan-1(V,W))->M               //M is the magnitude of the velocity vector
 M-F*W//M->W                //F is the friction constant. I multiply the new magnitude by each component before dividing by the current magnitude
 M-F*V//M->V                //because W//M would give a value of 0
 If X/256>90
  -V->V
 End
 If Y/256>59
  -W->W
 End
 DispGraphClrDraw
End
Depending on P and θ, the code may or may not work, and I can't figure out why; the ball does seemingly random stuff, often not even going in the right direction.
Also, I don't know if this is relevant, but when I debugged the magnitude, it changed whenever the ball bounced off the left or right of the screen, which I don't think should be happening.
Can anybody help me fix this?

Also, make sure to add the parentheses in the square root bracket, because axe will compute it like this:
(W²+V)²
Do this instead:
W²+(V²)


Also, make sure you used "²" which is the square operator, and not ^2 which is a modulo operator

Oh, I totally overlooked that.

How does it move? Does the angle seem wacky right at the start or is it only when it bounces?

Edit: Also, why are you using the fixed point multiplication to assign V and W? Couldn't you just use regular multiplication and divide by 128?