If a girl on a beach kicks a ball into the sea at 7.2 ms-1 at an angle θ of 30° above the horizontal, the time of flight, maximum height reached and the range can all be worked out as follows.

I wish Angry Birds had been around when I was teaching high school physics. Please don’t think of the game as a hate crime against hogs, or an avian anger management program—instead, think of it as a ...

A baseball team helps us demonstrate horizontally launched projectiles. Unit 2 Segment G: Horizontally Launched Projectiles We enlist a high school baseball team to help show how objects behave when ...

You don’t have to be a caped superhero to stop a speeding bullet. Scientists have created a material that demonstrates how common plastics can bring projectiles traveling faster than a kilometer per ...