-In this week's lab, we analyzed the motion of a basketball when it is thrown in the air and moves from left to right, up and down. We used the apps Video Physics and Graphical Analysis to record the ball's movement in a video, and then to see what the graphs of the x-component and y-component of the ball's motion looked like.
Here's a motion map of the ball's path:
-This is an easy motion and direction for us to understand because we see and therefor understand projectiles very often in everyday life. But what if we separate the ball's vertical and horizontal directions? For all the other visual learners out there, the meanings of what the velocity and accelerations in both directions are explained in the graphs below:
X-Dimension
Y-Dimension
Here's a photo of our first ideas of what a projectile is and how the X and Y dimensions play a significant role in understanding the path of a projectile's motion:
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