The rate of change of velocity of an object with respect to time
What is acceleration?
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?
Is a form of motion where an object move in a curve path.
What is Projectile Motion?
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 science of mechanics that deals with the flight, behavior, and effects of projectiles, especially bullets, unguided bombs, rockets
What is ballistics?
The path taken by the projectile.
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?
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?
It is the number in degrees expressing the orientation of the projectile to be thrown
What is Degree?
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?
is when it is thrown parallel to the horizon, so it moves with a horizontal takeoff speed only under the influence of its own weight.
What is Horizontally launched projectile?
The object undergoing the projectile motion.
Projectile
This man is responsible for figuring out that the graph of any projectile's motion is a parabola.
Who is Galileo?