Projectile motion with optional air drag

Fire a cannon on Earth, Moon or Mars. Change angle, speed and launch height, switch air drag on and compare the real trajectory with the ideal parabola.

About this experiment

What you do in the lab

Change the controls and watch the physics behave in real time in 3D. Live readouts and graphs show the numbers behind it, and the Learn tab has the theory, procedure, observations and viva questions. Works on a phone or a laptop, in English and Hindi.

Topics: projectile · range · kinematics · drag

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