Sunday, October 20, 2013

Projectile motion


If you don't know what the picture above is you clearly have not played the addictive game called angry birds. The point of this game is to knock down the structure ahead using small birds and a sling shot. In order to knock the structure down you have to know what angle to aim the bird so that when it makes it's parabolic acceleration toward the structure it will hit the right point. The parabolic acceleration that the bird is making is an example of projectile motion. Because no matter what the bird will fall in the shape of a parabola due to gravity.

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