Objectives

After this lesson, students will be able to:

• define motion and understand horizontal & vertical motions independently then combine to understand projectile motion.

• define projectiles and projectile motion

• describe horizontal and non-horizontal launched projectiles otherwise known as characteristics of a projectile's trajectory

• solve problems involving projectile motion

Standards

The standards used from the Alabama Course of Study for Science (pg. 52) for high school students under the subject physics. This lesson will fall under Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions 1. Investigate and analyze, based on evidence obtained through observation or experimental design, the motion of an object using both graphical and mathematical models (e.g., creating or interpreting graphs of position, velocity, and acceleration versus time graphs for one- and two dimensional motion; solving problems using kinematic equations for the case of constant acceleration) that may include descriptors such as position, distance traveled, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration.

You may access the Alabama Course of Study with the following link: