Segment G: Horizontally Launched Projectiles
Segment G: Horizontally Launched Projectiles
We enlist a high school baseball team to help show how objects behave when they travel as horizontally launched projectiles.
Science
Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the relationship between distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration as functions of time.
Analyze and interpret data of two-dimensional motion with constant acceleration.
- Resolve position, velocity, or acceleration vectors into components (x and y, horizontal and vertical).
- Add vectors graphically and mathematically by adding components.
- Interpret problems to show that objects moving in two dimensions have independent motions along each coordinate axis.
- Design an experiment to investigate the projectile motion of an object by collecting and analyzing data using kinematic equations.
- Predict and describe how changes to initial conditions affect the resulting motion.
- Calculate range and time in the air for a horizontally launched projectile.
-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.
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.
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