Chapter 4:

Uniform

Chapter 3: Circular
Motion

Curvilinear Motion
Projectile
- any body with initial velocity that follows a
path called trajectory.
 Equation for Projectile Motion

S – Displacement
Vo – Initial Velocity a – acceleration
V – Final Velocity t – time elapsed
Example 1:
A football, kicked at an angle of 40ᵒ above the
ground, reaches a horizontal range of 190 ft.
(a) What was its initial speed?
(b) What was its maximum height?
(c) What was its time of flight?
Example 2:
A boy, upon seeing a ball on the ground,
kicked it at a certain angle ɵ with the horizontal.
The ball reached the highest point of its trajectory
2.50 sec after it was kicked, and traveled a
horizontal distance of 120m before hitting the
ground.
(a) What was the time of flight of the ball?
(b) What was ɵ the angle of firing of the ball?
(c) With what speed did the ball hit the ground?
Example 3:
In one of the UAAP games, a player released
the ball 7 ft above the ground when he was 17 ft
away horizontally from the basket. The basket is 10
ft above the ground. The ball sank in the basket
after 0.7 sec. Neglecting air resistance:
(a) What was the initial velocity of the ball?
(b) What was the angle of firing of the ball?
(c) With what speed did the ball sank in the
basket?
Example 4:
A stone is thrown at an angle 300 above the
horizontal from a windowsill that is 600 m above
the ground. If it reached the highest point 8
seconds later.
(a) With what speed was it thrown?
(b) How high above the ground did it rise?
(c) Where was it 4 sec and 12 sec after it was
thrown?
(d) With what speed did it strike the ground?
Example 5:
An archer shoots an arrow with a velocity of 30
m/s at an angle of 20ᵒ with respect to the
horizontal. An assistant standing on the level
ground 30 m downrange from the launch point
throws an apple straight up with the minimum
initial speed necessary to meet the path of the
arrow. What is the initial speed of the apple and at
what time after the arrow is launched should the
apple be thrown so that arrow hits the apple?
Example 6:
A swimmer dived off a cliff with a running
horizontal leap. What must his minimum speed be
just as he leaves the top of the cliff so that he will
miss the ledge at the bottom which is 2 m wide and
9 m below the top of the cliff?
 Example 7:

The car shown is just to clear the water-filled

gap. Find the take off velocity.

6m

300

5.5 m
 Example 8:

A ball is thrown so that it just clears a 5 meters

fence 18 meters away. If it left the hand 1.5 meters
above the ground and at an angle of 600 with the
horizontal, what was the initial velocity of the ball?

600
5m

18 m
 Example 9:

A stunt man is to drive a car across the water-

filled gap shown. Determine the car’s minimum take
velocity, landing velocity and the angle θ of the
landing ramp.
V

3m
A
1
2

12 m
 Example 10:

Determine the distance S at which a ball thrown

with a velocity Vo of 100 ft/s at an angle θ = tan-1 (3/4)
will strike the incline shown.

1
3
 Example 11:

In the figure, a ball thrown down the incline

strikes it at a distance S = 75 m. If the ball rises to a
maximum height h = 20 m. above the point of
release, compute the initial velocity and the
inclination θ.
20 m
θ

3
1
 Example 12:

Boat A moves with a constant velocity of 6

m/sec., starting from the position down. Find θ in
order for the projectile to hit the boat 5 sec. after
starting, under the conditions given. How high is the
hill above the water?
V = 30 m/s
θ

6 m/s

90 m
Example 7:
A criminal is escaping across a rooftop and runs
off the roof horizontally, landing on the roof of an
adjacent building. The horizontal distance between
the two buildings is 340 cm, and the roof of the
adjacent building is 200 cm below the jumping off
point.
(a) What was the minimum jumping off speed
needed by the criminal?
(b) How long did it take the criminal to escape
from one building to the other?
(c) With what speed did the criminal land on the
roof of the adjacent building?
Example 8:
A horizontal rifle is fired at a bull’s-eye. The
initial speed of the bullet is 67,000 cm/s. The barrel
is pointed directly at the center of the bull’s-eye, but
the bullet strikes the target at a point 2.5 com below
the center.
(a) How long did it take the bullet to strike the
bull’s-eye?
(b) What was the horizontal distance between the
end of the rifle and the bull’s-eye?
(c) With what velocity did the bullet strike the
bull’s-eye?
Example 9:
An airplane is flying with a velocity of 240 m/s
at an angle of 30ᵒ below the horizontal. A flare is
then released from the plane and hits a target on
the ground in 13s.
(a) What was the altitude of the plane when the
flare was released?
(b) At what horizontal distance from the plane was
the target when the flare was released?
(c) With what velocity did the flare hit the target?