PROJECTILE MOTION | 2.2

Projectile

Object given an initial velocity and then follows a path

determined entirely by the effects of gravity and air

resistance.

• Baseball, fireworks, missiles, fragments ejected from

volcanoes, leaping dolphins

Trajectory

Path followed by a projectile

• Follows exactly or approximately a parabolic shape,

depending on the presence or absence of air resistance.

zero

The acceleration along the horizontal component is _____,

2D

waht types of dimention is projectile motion

INDEPENDENT

x and y components are totally _____ of each other!

y-component

Gravity ONLY affects the _____ of the motion, hence the

curving downward path, with vx unchanged.

45

angle with highest range

75

angle with lowest range