Week 345 Motions in Two Dimensions and Projectile Launched in An Angle
Week 345 Motions in Two Dimensions and Projectile Launched in An Angle
Week 345 Motions in Two Dimensions and Projectile Launched in An Angle
Physics
Forces, Motion and
Energy
Motion in Two Dimensions
Have you seen a soccer player
kick a ball?
Or a basketball player shoots a
curve path.
The curve naturally happens
when an object, called a
projectile, moves in two
dimensions – having both
horizontal and vertical motion
components, acted by gravity
only.
In physics, this is called
projectile motion.
Projectile
motion can
happen in two
situations – projectiles
launched horizontally
and projectiles
launched at an angle.
Projectiles Launched Horizontally
A projectile launched
horizontally has no initial
vertical velocity (vix = 0).
Thus, its vertical motion is
x = 0.70 m y=?
v fy = ?
t=?
You can solve for time using
equations from Horizontal or
Vertical Component depending on
the given.
In this problem, we cannot solve for