Review for:Projectile Motion Applet: Gravity-induced Parabolic Trajectories

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posted: on January 11, 2007 at 9:49PM

My rating of this resource: ***

My experience using this resource:
Physics

Topic I was teaching:
Projectile Motion

My learning goal for which this resource was used:
To see how the launch angle affected height and distance. To see that projectiles launched at two different angles that add up to 90 degrees (ex. 80 & 10, 60& 30, etc) reach the same distance. To see that max distance is achieved at 45 degrees in the absence of air resistance.

Course Level:
A.P., Honors or Advanced, Intro or Regular, Remedial

How I/my students used the resource:
In-class demo

Value Added:
Provides visualization or animation, Provides additional content

Strengths:
Easy and simple. Good visualization tool. Easy access to graphs of parabolic paths of projectile motion.

Weaknesses:
Only plots up to 5 different trajectories at a time.

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