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100

The rate of change of velocity of an object with respect to time

What is acceleration?

100

This equation helps to find the time it takes to reach the maximum _____ of a projectile.


What is height?

100

Whatever goes up must come down based on this factor.

What is gravity?

100

Galileo was the first man to split up projectile motions into horizontal and _____ components, otherwise known as x and y.

What is vertical?

100

The variable represents this factor in projectile motion.

What is acceleration?

200

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?

200

The variable Vi is used to represent the ______ velocity of a projectile.

What is initial?

200

When something is moving and changing position, it is in ____ whether it is going slow or fast, or forwards and backwards.

What is motion?

200

Galileo started working on projectile motion from as early as this century.

What is the 16th century?

200

The y-axis uses the ___ of the angle to figure out the quotient of Vy and V. (Opposite over hypotenuse)

What is Sine?

300

The science of mechanics that deals with the flight, behavior, and effects of projectiles, especially bullets, unguided bombs, rockets

What is ballistics?

300

When the variable g is portrayed in an equation, it usually represents gravity which is this number.

What is 9.8 m/s2?

300

When graphing a projectile's motion, it creates this kind of graph, which is shaped like a U.

What is a parabola?

300

The theory of projectile motion was founded in an experiment that used this weapon to display a projectile's parabola.

What are cannons?

300

The variable Vx displays the _______ _______ along the x-axis

What is horizontal velocity?

400

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?

400

The equation  is used to represent the maximum _____ that is obtained during projectile motion.

What is distance?

400

When writing a theoretical path of projectile motion, you tend to ignore the ___ resistance whether wind is flowing or not.

What is air?

400

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?

400

The variable is used to represent this component of projectile motion.

What is time?

500

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?

500

 represents the ________ speed of a projectile. It leaves no time to waste.

What is instantaneous?

500

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?

500

This man is responsible for figuring out that the graph of any projectile's motion is a parabola.

Who is Galileo?

500

The equation  can be used to find the ____ of the displacement.

What is magnitude?

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