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Variables
100
The rate of change of velocity of an object with respect to time
What is acceleration?
100
This equation can be used to find the _?_.
y = 1/2 gt2
What is height?
100
The tendency of an object to remain in its state of motion.
What is inertia?
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 g represents this factor in projectile motion.
What is acceleration due to gravity?
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 V0 is used to represent the ______ velocity of a projectile.
What is initial?
200
The study of motion. Often involves graphs, such as a position time graph.
What is kinematics?
200
Galileo started working on projectile motion from as early as this century.
What is the 16th century?
200
This trig ratio is used to determine the vertical component of velocity.
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 acceleration due to gravity which is this number.
What is 9.8 m/s2?
300
A position time graph for an object that is speeding up.
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 x = vx t
What is horizontal distance or range?
400
The shape of a velocity time graph for an object in freefall
What is a decreasing linear graph?
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 t is used to represent this component of projectile motion.
What is time?
500
The angle (θ) at which a projectile is launched to reach the maximum range.
What is the45 degree angle?
500
This equation is used for projectiles launch at an angle to find _?_ y = vy0t + 1/2 gt2
What is the vertical displacement?
500
An object that is accelerating must be experiencing a(n) ___ ___ according to Newton's 2nd Law of Motion.
What is net force or unbalanced force?
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 
What is the Pythagorean theorem?