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The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Gravity Free Environment
Students can launch a banana as a projectile at a monkey in a gravity-free environment.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Throw With Gravity On
Students can visualize a zookeeper shooting a banana from a banana cannon to a monkey who hangs from the limb of a tree in normal gravity.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors/projectiles: Throw at the Monkey With Gravity On
With this animation and explanation, students can visualize and imagine throwing a banana at a monkey in a normal gravity situation.
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The Physics Classroom:vectors and Projectiles:throw at a Slow Speed With Gravity
In this animation, students can visualize and imagine throwing a projectile in slow speed in a normal gravity situation.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors/projectiles: Horizontally Launched Projectiles
With this animation, students can imagine a cannonball being launched from a cannon atop a very high cliff. Imagine as well that the cannonball does not encounter a significant amount of air resistance.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors/projectiles:non Horizontally Launched Projectiles
Visualize and read about launching an object from a non-horizontal position so that it becomes a projectile.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Maximum Range
Students can imagine a cannonball launched at three different launch angles where the speed is held constant; only the angle is changed. The cannonballs do not encounter a significant amount of air resistance. How will the trajectories...
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: The Truck and the Ball
Imagine a pickup truck moving with a constant speed along a city street. In the course of its motion, a ball is projected straight upwards by a launcher located in the bed of the truck (with no air resistance). This animation depicts the...