Textbooks almost always have a stroboscopic photograph of a ball falling alongside of one with an initial horizontal speed. These photos are great for showing how the two objects experience the same vertical acceleration; however, the photos don't usually illustrate what happens if a projectile is launched at some angle. There are a number of ways to illustrate the effects of the launch angle: shooting a ball or stream of water through hoops, for example.1 Those demonstrations, though, do not allow for side-by-side comparison of the effects of various launch angles. Thus, a few years ago I constructed this three-dimensional projectile model to do just that. The model is composed of two three-dimensional “stroboscopic sculptures” representing the trajectory of two projectiles.
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Projectile Motion Model
Sean Cordry
Sean Cordry
Northwestern College of Iowa, Orange City, IA
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Phys. Teach. 41, 430–431 (2003)
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Sean Cordry; Projectile Motion Model. Phys. Teach. 1 October 2003; 41 (7): 430–431. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1616485
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