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PROJECTILE MOTION

We see one dimensional motion in previous topics. Now, we will try to explain motion in two dimensions that is

exactly called “projectile motion”. In this type of motion gravity is the only factor acting on our objects. We can

have different types of projectile type. For example, you throw the ball straight upward, or you kick a ball and give

it a speed at an angle to the horizontal or you just drop things and make them free fall; all these are examples of

projectile motion.

In projectile motion, gravity is the only force acting on the object. I will explain this sentence with a picture and

examples. First, look at the given picture which shows the motion path, velocities in different points and forces

acting upon the object doing projectile motion.

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As you see in the picture given above, we have a projectile motion and velocity components at different positions. At

the beginning the ball is thrown with an angle to the horizontal. V is its velocity and its direction is northeast. Vx and

Vy are the X and Y components of our velocity. If we look at the forces acting on our ball we see only the gravity as a

force. We examine our motion in two parts, first one is horizontal motion and second one is vertical motion. When we

look at the horizontal motion of the object we see that it looks like example solved in free fall motion section. In

vertical as you can see in the picture, our velocity is decreasing in the amount of gravitational acceleration. At the top

where it reaches its maximum height vertical component of our velocity becomes zero as in the case of free fall

examples. After Vy becomes zero our ball changes its direction and make free fall now. At the same levels

magnitudes of Vy are the same however, their signs are opposite. Right side of our picture has “-“sign in front of the

Vy because its direction is downward. Finally, when the ball hits the ground Vy reaches its beginning magnitude but

opposite in direction. We see the effect of gravity on vertical motion. Now, let’s look at the horizontal part of our

projectile motion. This part is so easy that you can understand from the picture, our horizontal component of velocity

is constant during the motion. Why it is constant? What changes the velocity? In previous section we learned force

concept that causes change in the state of motion. Look at our horizontal motion carefully. Is there any force acting

on our object in horizontal direction +X or –X? The answer is actually no. However, in –Y direction gravity is acting

on our object which makes Vy decrease and becomes zero at the top. All these explanations say that, we have two

motions in projectile motion. One of them is constant motion in horizontal and other one is free fall under the effect

of gravity in vertical. We tried to explain projectile motion with words. Now it is time to give equations of motion under

two titles.

1. Vertical motion:

In vertical we said that gravity acts on our objects and give it negative acceleration “-9,8m/s²”. This means that,

our velocity decreases -9,8m/s² in each second. We find the velocity of the free falling object by the equation

V=g.t . If we have initial velocity then, our equation becomes;

V=Vit+gt where acceleration is -9,8m/s²

The distance in free fall is calculated by the equation;


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As in the velocity case our distance is calculated considering the initial velocity of the object by the formula;

We put “-“sign because direction of g is downward.

2. Horizontal motion:

We have constant motion in horizontal because there is no force acting on our object in horizontal direction.

Thus, the X component of velocity is constant and acceleration in X direction is zero. The equation that is used to

calculate distance and velocity is given below.

You can find distance traveled, time elapsed from this equation.

Now I will solve some examples related to the each type of projectile motion.

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