Lesson: Projectiles Physics • First Year of Secondary School

In this lesson, we will learn how to analyze the motion of projectiles: objects that have nonzero uniform vertical acceleration while moving horizontally at constant velocity.

Lesson Plan

Students will be able to

distinguish between the horizontal and vertical components of the motion of a projectile,
identify horizontal and vertical components of projectile motion on distance–time, displacement–time, speed–time, and velocity–time graphs,
identify changes in the KE and GPE of a projectile along its trajectory,
identify the directions of forces acting on projectiles,
compare the magnitudes of forces acting on projectiles,
distinguish between the trajectories of projectiles that are and are not affected by drag forces.