Physics 218 Alexei Safonov Lecture 4: Kinematics in 2-3D

Speeder A speeder passes you (a police officer) sitting by the side of the road and maintains their constant velocity V. You immediately start to move after the speeder from rest with constant acceleration a. How much time does it take to ram the speeder? How far do you have to travel to catch the speeder? What is your final speed? X Police Officer Speeder

Free Fall Free fall is a good example for one dimensional problems Gravity: –Things accelerate towards earth with a constant acceleration –a=g=9.8m/s 2 towards the earth –We’ll come back to Gravity a lot!

Throw a Ball up You throw a ball upward into the air with initial velocity V 0. Calculate: a)The time it takes to reach its highest point (the top). b)Distance from your hand to the top c)Time to go from your hand and come back to your hand d)Velocity when it reaches your hand e)Time from leaving your hand to reach some random height h.

You throw a baseball straight up in the air. Where is the acceleration due to gravity the greatest? A.As soon as the ball leaves your hand. B.At the balls highest level. C.Just before the ball falls back into your hand. D.It’s the same everywhere.

Leaning over the top of a building you throw one ball up and one ball down with the same speed. Which ball will have the greater velocity when they hit the ground? A.The velocities will be the same. B.The ball thrown up, because it as more distance to fall. C.The ball thrown down, because you give it a downward throw to start. D.It depends on the mass of the balls and height of the building.

1ft 4ft 9ft ? 16ft At t = 0 a ball, initially at rest, starts to roll down a ramp with constant acceleration. Suppose it moves 1 foot between t = 0 sec and t = 1 sec. How far does it move between t = 1 sec and t = 2 sec ? A) 1 foot B) 2 feet C) 3 feet D) 4 feet E) 6 feet Clicker Question

At t = 0 a ball, initially at rest, starts to roll down a ramp with constant acceleration. Suppose it moves 1 foot between t = 0 sec and t = 1 sec. How far does it move between t = 1 sec and t = 2 sec ? A) 1 foot B) 2 feet C) 3 feet D) 4 feet E) 6 feet Checkpoint 2 Vote again

1ft 4ft 9ft ? 16ft At t = 0 a ball, initially at rest, starts to roll down a ramp with constant acceleration. Suppose it moves 1 foot between t = 0 sec and t = 1 sec. How far does it move between t = 1 sec and t = 2 sec ? A) 1 foot B) 2 feet C) 3 feet D) 4 feet E) 6 feet Clicker Question

Chapter 3 Kinematics in Two or Three Dimensions Projectile Motion Uniform Circular Motion

Important Equations of Motion If the acceleration is constant Position, velocity and Acceleration are vectors.

Projectile Motion The horizontal and vertical equations of the motion behave independently Problem solving: The trick for all these problems is to break them up into the X and Y directions.

Constant Acceleration

Kinematics in 3D

Projectile Motion & Frames of Reference

Checkpoint 1 A) The launched marble hits first. B) The dropped marble hits first. C) They both hit at the same time. Lets check again A physics demo launches one marble horizontally while at the same instant dropping a second marble straight down. Which one hits the ground first?

Checkpoint 1 A) The launched marble hits first. B) The dropped marble hits first. C) They both hit at the same time. A physics demo launches one marble horizontally while at the same instant dropping a second marble straight down. Which one hits the ground first?

Projectile Motion The horizontal and vertical equations of the motion behave independently Problem solving: The trick for all these problems is to break them up into the X and Y directions.

Projectile Motion Horizontal Vertical Boring

Monkey Troubles You are a vet trying to shoot a tranquilizer dart into a monkey hanging from a branch in a distant tree. You know that the monkey is very nervous, and will let go of the branch and start to fall as soon as your gun goes off. In order to hit the monkey with the dart, where should you point the gun before shooting? A) Right at the monkey B) Below the monkey C) Above the monkey

Monkey x  x o Dart x  v o t Shooting the Monkey…

y = v oy t  1 / 2 g t 2 Still works even if you shoot upwards! y = y o  1 / 2 g t 2 Dart hits the monkey

Firing up in the air at an angle A ball is fired up in the air with velocity V o and angle  o. Ignore air friction. The acceleration due to gravity is g pointing down. What is the final velocity here?

Checkpoint 2 A destroyer simultaneously fires two shells with the same initial speed at two different enemy ships. The shells follow the trajectories shown. Which ship gets hit first. Enemy 1DestroyerEnemy 2 A) Enemy 1 B) Enemy 2 C) They are both hit at the same time

Checkpoint 2 …Which enemy ship gets hit first? A) Enemy 1 B) Enemy 2 C) Same B) Both shots were accelerating towards the ground at the same rate, but the shot fired at Enemy 2 did not go as high and therefore took less time to fall back to the ground. C) we are given that two shells are fired at same speed. therefore, both ships should get hit at the same time. A) they are traveling at the same speed, but the enemy one trajectory is shorter Enemy 1DestroyerEnemy 2Enemy 1Enemy 2

Enemy 1Destroyer Checkpoint 3 A destroyer fires two shells with different initial speeds at two different enemy ships. The shells follow the trajectories shown. Which enemy ship gets hit first? Enemy 2 A) Enemy 1 B) Enemy 2 C) They are both hit at the same time

Enemy 1DestroyerEnemy 2 B) The initial speed of the shell fired at ship 2 is greater, so ship 2 gets hit first. C) they both achieve the same height so they remain in the air the same amount of time A) Since the initial speed for the first shell is lower, Enemy Ship 1 will be hit first. …Which enemy ship gets hit first? A) Enemy 1 B) Enemy 2 C) Same Checkpoint 3

Vast majority don’t feel very confident about this material. How familiar are you with the concepts of relative motion and centripetal acceleration from your high school course. A) I already know this stuff B) It seems familiar, but I need a review C) We didn't learn this in high school