One day after school, you are enjoying a soda in the back yard. When the can is empty, you decide to throw it in the trashcan. What effects whether or not it gets in the can?

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Answer the following questions: 

  1. One day after school, you are enjoying a soda in the back yard. When the can is empty, you decide to throw it in the trashcan. What effects whether or not it gets in the can? 

 

  1. Use Projectile Motion to test your ideas about the things that affect the landing location of a projectile. 
  1. Make a complete list of things that affect the landing site of a projectile including your ideas from question #1 and any discoveries you made using the simulation. 
  1. Next to each item, briefly explain why you think the landing location changes. 

 

  1. What is meant by the expression "flight path of a projectile"? Draw (or explain) the flight of the soda can. Use the simulation to investigate how the items listed in #2 affect the flight path. Summarize your discoveries including explanations for the different flight paths. 

 

  1. Draw a picture of a projectile path and label all the terms that are on the simulation page. 

 

  1. Describe why using the simulation is a good method for studying simulations. Identify the error sources that the simulation eliminates or minimizes. Also, run tests to determine how well the simulation represents projectile motion and identify limitations. 
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