Horizontally Launched Projectiles
We enlist a high school baseball team to help show how objects behave when they travel as horizontally launched projectiles.
We enlist a high school baseball team to help show how objects behave when they travel as horizontally launched projectiles.
Learning Objectives
-Define key terms related to projectile motion such as projectile, trajectory, range, and hang time.
-Explore why we analyze the motion of a projectile separately in the horizontal and vertical directions.
-Analyze the horizontal and vertical components of motion separately by doing an example.
-Reinforce the idea that elapsed time is the same for an object at its given position in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction.
-Define key terms related to projectile motion such as projectile, trajectory, range, and hang time.
-Explore why we analyze the motion of a projectile separately in the horizontal and vertical directions.
-Analyze the horizontal and vertical components of motion separately by doing an example.
-Reinforce the idea that elapsed time is the same for an object at its given position in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction.
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Vocabulary
hang time - the amount of time a projectile remains in the air. projectile - an object that is moving through the air. range - the displacement of a projectile in the horizontal direction. trajectory - the path taken through the air. Closer Look
In this Closer Look segment on Projectile Motion, we investigate projectiles launched at an angle. |