When an object is given an initial velocity and is affected by gravitational acceleration and air resistance, it follows a specific path known as projectile motion. Athletes often perform this type of ...

This study aimed to help by creating a virtual laboratory for those who want to examine the projectile motion of mechanical physics. In this way, less costly virtual laboratory simulations were ...

We calculate the average speed of a projectile in the absence of air resistance, a quantity that is missing from the treatment of the problem in the literature. We then show that this quantity is ...

1Department of Administrative Sciences, Metropolitan College, Boston University, Boston, USA; 2Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, USA; 3Institute for ...

In a previous post, I was trying to show that the range of a projectile depends on the launch angle. Yes, this isn't that too difficult to see in an introductory physics course, but how do you show ...

The terms projectile and trajectory are introduced. Projectile Motion: The terms projectile and trajectory are introduced. Students learn to describe horizontal and vertical components of a projectile ...

I wish Angry Birds had been around when I was teaching high school physics. Please don’t think of the game as a hate crime against hogs, or an avian anger management program—instead, think of it as a ...

In the previous section we have seen that a projectile will follow a very predictable curved path in air. However when the projectile is given a greater speed, it goes further. The reality of the ...