{"id":89245,"date":"2019-04-05T10:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/5-of-the-best-demos-of-projectile-motion-and-its-quirks"},"modified":"2019-04-05T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:23:31","slug":"5-of-the-best-demos-of-projectile-motion-and-its-quirks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/5-of-the-best-demos-of-projectile-motion-and-its-quirks","title":{"rendered":"5 of the Best Demos of Projectile Motion and Its Quirks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-of-the-best-demos-of-projectile-motion-and-its-quirks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suppose you throw some object near the surface of the Earth. If the only significant force on the object is the constant downward gravitational force, we call this \u201cprojectile motion.\u201d Yes, that tennis ball you loft across the room is projectile motion. Flipping a coin\u2014the center of mass is projectile motion. As you can probably guess, a dude jumping on a moving trampoline is also an example of projectile motion.<\/p>\n<p>For these kinds of motions, the following must be true:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/5-of-the-best-demos-of-projectile-motion-and-its-quirks\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/5-of-the-best-demos-of-projectil...ts-quirks\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you throw some object near the surface of the Earth. If the only significant force on the object is the constant downward gravitational force, we call this \u201cprojectile motion.\u201d Yes, that tennis ball you loft across the room is projectile motion. Flipping a coin\u2014the center of mass is projectile motion. As you can probably [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}