Parabollic Throw

[Fu-Kwun Hwang]

Parabollic Throw
Position the object and resize its velocity. Then, click on Play.
Question: Where will the object reach the ground?
Make measurements by clicking the mouse near the start and end point and compare them with your predictions.

Author : Francisco Esquembre 

 From an original idea from Taiwan Workshop on Ejs Date : March 2002

Embed a running copy of this simulation
<applet code='users.examples.ParabollicThrow_pkg.ParabollicThrowApplet.class' archive='http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/ejsuser/2/ejs_ParabollicThrow.jar' name='ParabollicThrow6529' id='ParabollicThrow6529' width='538' height='266' mayscript=true><param name='draggable' value='true'></applet>
Embed a running copy link(show simulation in a popuped window)
<a href='http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/msg.php?smfejs=6529' target='smfejs'>Run simulation</a>

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Press the Alt key and the left mouse button to drag the applet off the browser and onto the desktop. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Taiwan License

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