Projectile Motion: The Basic Flight Path





Title Projectile Motion: The Basic Flight Path
Description This activity is designed as a team activity and the instructions ask for both individual and group answers to questions The students will draw basic flight path of a projectile, altering that flight path as initial velocity and angle of launch are changed, The students will list and describe what the variables are in the flight path of projectile motion, including; Range (horizontal distance moved) Time (time the projectile is in the air) Initial velocity of the projectile Angle (the angle of launch of the projectile)
Subject Physics
Level High School
Type Lab
Duration 60 minutes
Answers Included No
Language English
Keywords Heat, Stat Mech, Thermo
Simulation(s) Projectile Motion


Author(s) Steve Reeves
Contact Email sreeves@jeffco.k12.co.us
School / Organization Standley Lake High School
Date submitted 8/4/05
Date updated 9/18/07