Analysis of Two Dimensional Projectile Motion

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Uploaded by on Oct 11, 2007

This demonstration uses stop motion video to visualize the distances travelled at regular time intervals to analyze the two dimensional motion of projectiles. Be sure to check out my interactive projectile animation on www.ScienceWithMrNoon.com

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  • I'm sorry but you've got the forumulation wrong. It's mass not weight. They will have the same weight regardless of their mass. The meaning of weight in physics is a little bit different than in real life.

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  • The Galilean experiement virtually excluded the role of air resistance. A parachuting example, however, would take into account air resistance.

    The heavier object will of course take a longer time to reach terminal velocity, because it exerts more force for air resistance to equalise (and air resistance is proportional to velocity/acc).

    The small scale Galilean experiment is to the large scale parachuting example what Newtonian mechanics are to general relativity.

  • However, since A has twice the mass of B, it resists accelerating twice as much as B. These two effects - A has twice the force, but it resists twice as much - cancel each other out, and A has the same acceleration as B in free fall!

  • For an object in free fall, the net force on it equals its weight (the pull of gravity - the force exerted on it by the Earth) and its weight is proportional to its mass. In other words, if object A has twice the mass of object B, then A also weighs twice as much as B. If A weighs twice as much as B, then the Earth pulls on A twice as hard as it pulls on B, and the net force on A during free fall is twice as much as the net force on B.

  • THANX so much...

  • Awesome! I love it and your teacher does an awesome job... You as well with the slow-motion and little notes that you put on there. I love the explanations... and I agree!! Keep them coming!!

  • keep em comin man

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