The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Name That Vector Interactive

Students can launch a banana as a projectile at a monkey in a gravity-free environment.

In this animation, students can visualize and imagine throwing a projectile in slow speed in a normal gravity situation.

Through a short informational reading piece and an animated visual, students learn that vectors represent both magnitude and direction.

Students can visualize a zookeeper shooting a banana from a banana cannon to a monkey who hangs from the limb of a tree in normal gravity.

Students can imagine a cannonball launched at three different launch angles where the speed is held constant; only the angle is changed. The cannonballs do not encounter a significant amount of air resistance. How will the trajectories...

Consider a plane moving with a constant speed at an elevated height above the Earth's surface. In the course of its flight, the plane drops a package from its luggage compartment. This animation depicts such a situation. The path of the...

Imagine a pickup truck moving with a constant speed along a city street. In the course of its motion, a ball is projected straight upwards by a launcher located in the bed of the truck (with no air resistance). This animation depicts the...

Four different animated illustrations that show situations of bananas being thrown at a monkey in different gravity situations.

Through examples and interactive practice problems, this physics tutorial helps students understand how forces behave on an object on an inclined plane.

An extensive discussion of vector addition with links to interactives and exercises.