Unit 4 Trig!

We had to apply some trigonometry to our physics learning by incorporating SOHCAHTOA into projectile motion and diagonals. Since we don't like using diagonals, we need to "BUREKU" them up into horizontal and vertical lines instead! We used Sine (opp/hyp), cosine (adj/hyp) and tangent (opp/adj). It's easy to find these angles because we can plug in the numbers into our calculators. The hypotenuse would represent speed(velocity) in meters per second. In order to find the horizontal and vertical velocities of an angle we would set it up based on which side we are finding the distance for! So if we were to find out the y measurement of a triangle (vertical), we would have to use Vo times sine theta. and to find x (horizontal) we would multiply Vo times cosine theta. We would also use our t-chart and plug in all variables to find time (VAT: V=Vo+AT) and range using DAT equation which is d=1/2 at^2 +Vot!
We also went over some more kinematics in our Flying Donkeys lab where we dropped a ball from the top of a slop and determined exactly (or very close to) where our ball would land by measuring the slope angle, distance, and height. Here are the results to that lab!