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 ...

I’ve started recreating many of my numerical model tutorials for introductory physics. In the beginning, I had students use spreadsheets to create models. Of course, spreadsheets aren’t very good for ...

It is that FIRST Robotics competition time of the year. Basically, in FIRST, high school students work in teams to build robots that compete in specific tasks. Apparently, this year a task involves ...

The terms projectile and trajectory are introduced. Projectile Motion: The terms projectile and trajectory are introduced. Students learn to describe horizontal and vertical components of a projectile ...

Worksheet on calculations involving projectile motion, moving from simple calculating max height through to more complicated questions involving finding the initial velocity or angle. Both projectiles ...

A-Level Mechanics: Introduction to Projectile Motion (20-slide PowerPoint Lesson) This resource is a complete introductory lesson on projectile motion for A-Level Mathematics (Mechanics). Rather than ...

Shock network. A projectile (dark semicircle) generates chains of force in a two-dimensional granular material as the grains absorb the energy of impact. High-speed video (below) shows that energy is ...