Symbol for change in displacement
What is delta d?
This is the shape of the path of all projectiles.
What is an arc?
What is the initial y velocity of a projectile launched horizontally
What is 0m/s?
A ball is dropped from 2 m above the ground. How long does it take to hit the ground?
What is 1.56 s?
This person "discovered" gravity
Who is Isaac Newton?
Change in direction, speed, or both
What is Acceleration?
This word describes a straight line from a starting position to an end position
What is displacement?
What is the acceleration of a projectile on Earth?
What is -9.8 m/s^2?
The initial horizontal velocity (vi in the x-direction) for a ball thrown horizontally off a cliff is 40 m/s. The ball stays in the air for 3 seconds. How far from the base of the cliff does it land?
What is 120 m?
This is the building block of matter
What is an atom?
The distance a projectile travels in the x direction
What is range?
Because motion in the x-direction and the y-direction are independent of one another, the amount of time a projectile is in the air depends on ...
What is gravity? (Will also accept "Y direction")
A physics student stands with his paintball gun and fires it off horizontally. The paintball leaves the gun from a height of 1 m and lands on the ground 36.0 m away. How fast did the student shoot the ball?
Pressure describes what physical quantity spread out over a certain area?
What is force?
If a person is running at a rate of 5mph North, is this a vector or scalar quantity?
What is vector?
An object is launched 25 m/s at an angle of 60 degrees relative to the ground. The horizontal component of velocity would be ...
What is 12.5m/s?
As the velocity of an projectile increases, its acceleration in the y direction...
What is remains the same
A physics student throws a ball in the air with an initial velocity of 10 m/s. What is the maximum height that it reaches?
What is 5.1 m?
This is the first element on the periodic table
What is hydrogen?
This velocity stays the same while a projectile flies through the air
What is horizontal velocity?
When are you able to use this equation? v=d/t
What is when there is no acceleration
A baseball is thrown horizontally off of a cliff with an initial velocity of 80 m/s. A bowling ball is dropped from the same cliff at the same time. Which hits the ground first?
What is both hit at the same time?
This is the name for the drag force on a projectile