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Blast a car out of a cannon, and challenge yourself to hit a target! Learn about projectile motion by firing various objects. Set parameters such as angle, initial speed, and mass. Explore vector representations, and add air resistance to investigate the factors that influence drag.
The trajectory of an object undergoing projectile motion consists of a vertical component and a horizontal component. These need to be evaluated separately. Some key terms to know, and how to calculate them, are: Time of flight: how long the projectile is in the air.
Projectile motion is the motion of an object thrown (projected) into the air when, after the initial force that launches the object, air resistance is negligible and the only other force that object experiences is the force of gravity.
Projectile Motion - PhET Interactive Simulations
Calculate the velocity of the missile just before it hits the ground. If the missile hits the ground and bounces up at an angle of 30 with a speed of 200 m/s, how far away from the point of impact will it land? Solution: This is a projectile motion problem, a type of motion in which, without air resis-tance, we have ax = 0 and ay = −g.
Projectile motion is a form of motion where an object moves in a parabolic path. The path followed by the object is called its trajectory. Projectile motion occurs when a force is applied at the beginning of the trajectory for the launch (after this the projectile is subject only to the gravity).
A generic trajectory is shown in Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\), showing the force and acceleration vectors (constant throughout) and the velocity vector at various points along the path. Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): A typical projectile trajectory.
