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Trajectory Lesson


Standards

 

1.      Students know how to solve two-dimensional trajectory problems: California State Standards i.

2.         Students know how to resolve two-dimensional vectors into their components and calculate the magnitude and direction of a vector from its components: California State Standards j.

 Essential Questions

 1.     What types of problems in physics are considered two-dimensional?

 2.      How are vectors broken into components and what do they represent?

 Unit Questions

 1.      Why are trajectory problems considered two-dimensional?

2.      Why must initial velocity in a trajectory problem be broken into two component vectors?

Lessons and Assignments

 Free Fall Lesson For all Students

Horizontal Trajectory Lesson for all Students

Projectile Motion Lesson for Algebra 2 and Pre-Calculus Students

Projectile Motion Lesson for Calculus Students

 

 

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