In this simulation, students pretend to launch bananas from a canon to the monkeys at the zoo. The monkeys sometimes let go of the branch at the exact moment the banana is launched. So the students must determine the correct aim angle and speed of the launch to successfully feed the monkey.

Concepts

trajectory, projectile motion

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Additional Tags

3rd law of motion, banana launch, newton's third law, physics classroom, vectors and projectiles: the monkey and the zookeeper

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 1 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)