Projectile Motion

This week in class we have been learning about projectiles and projectile motion. Projectile motion is an example of 2D kinematics. This means that there is motion happening on two different axes. There is motion happening on both the x, and y-axis in 2D kinematics. Projectile motion follows the “Vegas” rule, which means what happens on a certain axis, stays on that axis. I was bored this Sunday and was throwing cashews (I’m nutty for cashews. So punny) off my apartment balcony. I saw that these cashews became projectiles. They were accelerating down towards the ground at 9.8m/s² and were moving forward with the velocity at which I threw them. Having movement on two different axes made these cashews projectiles.