Background material for projectiles
Gravity and air resistance act on projectiles. Compare experiments on earth and the moon. A simple experiment to measure g. The independence of vertical and horizontal motion. Trajectories. Launch angle and range. Examples.

The monkey and the hunter
An old puzzle about the independence of vertical and horizontal motion: we compare an object falling vertically with a projectile fired horizontally. No monkeys were hurt in the making of this web site.

Download all animations in this chapter ( mp4 videos / original flash files )
Or you can download individually below each thumbnail

Projectiles