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Applied Maths: Projectiles Applets
| Springboard break | Ad for Sears. We should be able to work out why it's fake | 4 Star | |
| Displacement vectors | Link | From surendranath | 3 Star |
| Independent horizontal and vertical components | |||
| Projectile motion involvig a baseball helmet | link | Short but very impressivegif video from twitter | |
| The science behind the forward pass in rugby | Nice video from dailymotion | 5 Star | |
| Projectile motion, velocity vectors indicated | |||
| Nice interactive projectile simulation | This time you can look at velocity and/or accelation vectors | 4 Star | |
| Pearls of Water demonstration | link | Physics teacher Alom Shaha on YouTube. 6 mins | |
| Projectile fired from a height | Excellent applet for introducing Projecile Motion. Click on the velocity vector |
5 Star | |
| Projectile fired horizontally from a cliff | vectors indicated. Note that horizontal velocity is constant | 4 Star | |
| You gotta know your cos from your sine when investigating projectiles | YouTube. 1 min. Short skit from JSC | 4 Star | |
| Bullet fired versus dropped | |||
| From the perspective of vectors | Animation | ||
| And the real thing | Courtesy of Brianiac and YouTube. 3 mins | 4 Star | |
| Monkey and Hunter | This is a famous problem in this area, highly counter-intuitive | 5 Star | |
| Beautiful demonstration from Alom Shaha | 5 Star | ||
| Shoot a ball horizontally and let a second ball drop: which lands first? | Excellent applet for comparing horizontal initial velocity to dropping a ball | 3 Star | |
| Nice animation of the demonstration | From absorblearning.com | 3 Star | |
| Looking at the phenomenon using vectors | With both horizontal and vertical velocity vectors indicated | 3 Star | |
| How fast does the stunt rider have to travel to avoid the crocodiles? | Make your prediction first, then test it out. | 3 Star | |
| Tombstoning | |||
| Interesting image of a human projectile | Jumping off a cliff Notice the trajectories in both the horizontal and vertical directions |
4 Star | |
| Human projectiles | From YouTube | 3 Star | |
| Use projectile equations to determine if a Hollywood movie stunt is possible | From YouTube | 4 Star | |