Projectile Motion

A classic application of working with position, velocity, and acceleration in terms of vector function is to answer questions pertaining to projectile motion. Like what we did in class today(2/10/2011). It turns out there are a ton of helpful resources on the web for these types of problems.

Here is an hour long video from an MIT introductory physics course. He doesn't start from the begining of the topic, but does give several good examples that follow from what we did in class.

Watch it on Academic Earth

Here is another example:



If you guys find anything else that is helpful post it in the comments.