Human Projectile Motion When you have an object whose motion ... The only thing these two 1D motions share is time. The time it take the guy to move in the x-direction is the same time it takes ...

If the only significant force on the object is the constant downward gravitational force, we call this "projectile motion." Yes, that tennis ball you loft across the room is projectile motion.

In the Projectile Motion episode of NBC Learn's "The Science of NFL Football," you see that punted footballs travel in an arc known to mathematicians as a parabola.

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 computer interactive lab to explore projectile motion and force ...