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Apr 3, 2024

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This week, consider the following terms: Projectile Motion Trajectory Magnitude Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: Choose at least 2 terms from the list, and answer the following questions for each term: What familiarity and prior knowledge do you have about the term? What does the term mean in everyday language to everyday people? Use examples to help describe your thoughts. How do people use the word? What does the term mean in technical language to physicists? How is the term related to the course student learning outcome? Describe motion, qualitatively and quantitatively, using concepts of kinematics. What are the similarities and differences between the everyday and technical meanings and uses of the term? What impact might the similarities and differences have on your learning of physics concepts in this course? The two terms I have chosen for this week are Projectile and Trajectory. My familiarization with these two terms comes from my time spent in the U.S. Navy as a Gunner’s Mate. During my training, I was taught the basics of projectile and trajectory. A projectile is an object, such as the shell fried from my 5’54-gun mount, that is thrown or launched and travels through the air on a parabolic path. The trajectory is the path that the shell takes through the air to the target. That holds the same as if a quarterback throws a football to a receiver that is downfield. In the technical aspect, projectile is a object when its thrown or launched, it has an initial velocity and angle with respect to the horizontal axis. Trajectory, in a technical aspect, is the path that the object takes through the air or space, which is affected by velocity, angle of throw or launch, wind, and gravity. These factors affect the trajectory shape, height, range, and distance. We know that Kinematics deals with motion without considering force. Understanding projectile motion is important when it comes to motion other than one-dimensional. Studying Trajectory allows me to understand the characteristics of projectile motion, such as speed, velocity, and acceleration.
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