Build your own projectile experiment with independent launchers, ledges, landing targets and timing gates. Compare fired and dropped objects, measure vectors and forces, and export results.
What you can investigate
- Independent horizontal and vertical motion, including firing and dropping together
- Launches from ledges and collisions with raised landing platforms
- Measured velocity, acceleration, forces, energies and flight-time graphs
- Optional quadratic air resistance and horizontal wind
- Custom apparatus, captured readings, kept runs and CSV data
Try these investigations
- Fire horizontally and drop from the same height in vacuum; compare measured landing times.
- Hold angle and release height fixed, vary speed, and plot measured range against speed squared.
- Use two timing gates to compare horizontal velocities at different points on a path.
- Build a ledge experiment, show forces and compare vacuum with air resistance.
Revision and practice