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 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 Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...

Projectiles can be fairly challenging calculations due to the combination of resolving vectors and use of equations of motion under gravity. It's important to show working clearly and bear the ...

Figure 1: Formation of Copernicus crater by a low-speed impact. Figure 3: Impact velocity distribution on the Moon. The planetary geology community has not previously considered the possibility that ...