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Phy 9 Act 401 Read and Learn Projectile Motion
Phy 9 Act 401 Read and Learn Projectile Motion
Phy 9 Act 401 Read and Learn Projectile Motion
1. Define projectile motion. A projectile is any object that once projected or dropped continues in motion by its
own inertia and is influenced only by the downward force of gravity
3. What are the two components of a projectile motion and which type of motion is each of them?
Velocity component: horizontal motion
Direction component: vertical motion
4. What is a trajectory? It is the path that an object with mass in motion follows through space as a function of
time.
5. Analyze Figure 16-3 on page 370.
a. What can you say about the arrows that represent the horizontal velocity? A projectile moves along its path
with a constant horizontal velocity.
b. What can you say about the arrows that represent the vertical velocity? Its vertical velocity changes by -9.8
m/s each second of motion.
6. Give two (2) examples of each that were not mentioned in the book.