Projectile Motion Demonstration

A golf ball is fired directly upward from a moving cart and is then caught by the cart as the ball comes down, demonstrating that vertical and horizontal velocities of a projectile are independent.

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Course: 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999

Instructor: Prof. Walter Lewin