Wednesday 31 August 2011

Projectile Motion using Angry Birds

Used Tracker motion analysis today to help us understand more about how projectile motion works. The video below shows how to use the autotracker function to analyse the motion of the Angry Bird.



We used the analysis to figure out how the horizontal and vertical motion of the bird changed over time. We also calculated the approximate length of Angry Bird required to give an acceleration similar to gravity. The question sheet below was used as a guide.

Projectile Motion Using Angry Birds


1 comment:

  1. Nice post. I enjoy reading your article. I found new ideas and very good information. I will come back for the next post. Thank you.

    Taylor
    www.imarksweb.org

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