Physics A-Level
Projectile motion
What Projectile motion means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Projectile motion
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Reference: OCR
Horizontal acceleration is zero (constant velocity) and vertical acceleration is g downwards.
Topics that use Projectile motion
- Dynamics (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Drag
- Drag in gases
- Free fall with drag
- Friction
- homogeneity
- Isolating objects
- newton
- Resultant force and free-body diagrams
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