Why Is It So? — Season 1, Episode 6: Concerning Falling Bodies and Projectiles

Episode synopsis

Laws of motion and energy, discussed in earlier programs, converge in the real and virtual demonstrations Miller does on falling bodies and projectile motion. One principle says that horizontal motion does not affect vertical motion.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Idea of the Center of Gravity
• E2Newton's First Law of Motion-Inertia
• E33. Newton's Second Law of Motion – The Elevator Problem
• E4Newton's Third Law of Motion – Momentum
• E5Energy and Momentum
• E7The Simple Pendulum and Other Oscillating Things
• E8Adventures with Bernoulli
• E9Soap Bubbles and Soap Films
• E10Atmospheric Pressure – The Properties of Gases
• E11Centrifugal Force and Other Strange Matters
• E12The Strange Behavior of Rolling Things
• E13Archimedes' Principle