This study aimed to help by creating a virtual laboratory for those who want to examine the projectile motion of mechanical physics. In this way, less costly virtual laboratory simulations were ...

Using Java's Swing library, this projectile physics simulator allows the user to control a small block by applying forces to it, launch projectiles from the block, and freeze and unfreeze the ...

1 Department of Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China. 2 Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural Science, Abdulrahman Al-Sumait University (Sumait ...

I wish Angry Birds had been around when I was teaching high school physics. Please don’t think of the game as a hate crime against hogs, or an avian anger management program—instead, think of it as a ...

1 Department of Administrative Sciences, Metropolitan College, Boston University, Boston, USA. 2 Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, USA. 3 Institute for ...

Projectile motion describes how objects move through the air after being launched, like when a ball is thrown or an arrow fired. After launching, the only force acting on the projectile is gravity ...

I’ve started recreating many of my numerical model tutorials for introductory physics. In the beginning, I had students use spreadsheets to create models. Of course, spreadsheets aren’t very good for ...

In a previous post, I was trying to show that the range of a projectile depends on the launch angle. Yes, this isn't that too difficult to see in an introductory physics course, but how do you show ...