The rate of change of velocity of an object with respect to time
What is acceleration?
This equation helps to find the time it takes to reach the maximum _____ of a projectile.
What is height?
Whatever goes up must come down based on this factor.
What is gravity?
Galileo was the first man to split up projectile motions into horizontal and _____ components, otherwise known as x and y.
What is vertical?
The variable a represents this factor in projectile motion.
What is acceleration?
A form of motion experienced by an object or particle that is thrown near the Earth's surface and moves along a curved path under the action of gravity only
What is Projectile Motion?
The variable Vi is used to represent the ______ velocity of a projectile.
What is initial?
When something is moving and changing position, it is in ____ whether it is going slow or fast, or forwards and backwards.
What is motion?
Galileo started working on projectile motion from as early as this century.
What is the 16th century?
The y-axis uses the ___ of the angle to figure out the quotient of Vy and V. (Opposite over hypotenuse)
What is Sine?
Increasing the mass of a given object is going to have this impact on gravitational forces.
What is increase in gravitational forces?
The science of mechanics that deals with the flight, behavior, and effects of projectiles, especially bullets, unguided bombs, rockets
What is ballistics?
When the variable g is portrayed in an equation, it usually represents gravity which is this number.
What is 9.8 m/s2?
When graphing a projectile's motion, it creates this kind of graph, which is shaped like a U.
What is a parabola?
The theory of projectile motion was founded in an experiment that used this weapon to display a projectile's parabola.
What are cannons?
The variable Vx displays the _______ _______ along the x-axis
What is horizontal velocity?
This is the formula for calculating the gravitational effects between two bodies with masses x.
What is FG = G(m1 x m2 ) / r2 ?
A vector quantity that refers to "how far out of place an object is", this is the object's overall change in position.
What is displacement?
The equation is used to represent the maximum _____ that is obtained during projectile motion.
What is distance?
When writing a theoretical path of projectile motion, you tend to ignore the ___ resistance whether wind is flowing or not.
What is air?
This scientist holds one the most famous theories of physics in the entire world. He is one of the very first scientists and helped evolve physics to where it is today.
Who is Aristotle?
The variable t is used to represent this component of projectile motion.
What is time?
When two celestial bodies are further away from one another, this is true about their gravitational pull.
What is the gravitational pull will be less.
The angle (θ) at which a projectile must be launched in order to go a distance d , given the initial velocity v
What is the angle of reach?
represents the ________ speed of a projectile. It leaves no time to waste.
What is instantaneous?
The _____ of Earth is ignored to write a theoretical path of a projectile. Every 24 hours, the Earth does a full 360o this to start the day off.
What is rotation?
This man is responsible for figuring out that the graph of any projectile's motion is a parabola.
Who is Galileo?
The equation can be used to find the ____ of the displacement.
What is magnitude?
This is the law that explains the effect of mass on gravity.
What is the inverse square law?