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Projectile Motion Calculator

Craville Studies understands how difficult the projectile motion part of the course can be. This is why we have built a calculator to help students complete projectile motion questions. But rather than just give you the answers, we take you through the process as well.

There are many types of projectile motion questions so you will need to use more than one method a lot of the time to solve these problems.

For the below calculator, you should enter all the values you know (in the correct units) and tick the boxes for the values you are trying to find out. The calculator will then solve the problem and show you how to do it.

There are three types of calculators we have for projectile motion:

Basic Calculator - This calculator is used when you know the initial conditions of the projectile and want to find out information about its flight and landing.

In-Flight Calculator - This calculator is used when you know the conditions of the projectile mid-flight and need to find out information about the launch and landing. COMING SOON.

Target Calculator - This calculator is used when a projectile has to hit a target. Eg: You know something about its landing and need to find out information about its launch and flight. COMING SOON.

 


Basic Calculator

Initial Conditions:

The first few boxes deal with the initial conditions of the projectile.

 

These two boxes are used when initial velocity is represented as one vector.

Initial Velocity:         ms-1
Angle:                    
degrees

 

These two boxes are used when initial velocity is expressed as independent vectors.
Horizontal Velocity: 
ms-1
Vertical Velocity:     
ms-1


Height fired from:     
m

 

 

Calculate What?

  Initial Velocity

  Angle of Initial velocity

  Horizontal Component of initial velocity

  Vertical Component of initial velocity

  Max Height

  Time to reach max height

  Time of flight

  Range of flight

  Velocity just before projectile reaches ground (or target)

  Angle when projectile reaches ground (or target)



 

 

  Last Updated 06/08/2007