Understanding some Properties of Projectiles

Forget the math for a few minutes - focus on some of the important concepts and interesting properties of projectiles, at least under ideal conditions (i.e. no air friction!). This gets into the importance of independent horizontal and vertical motions that are really the key to understanding projectile motion, and multi-dimensional motion in general. To understand why parabolic paths form, check out this video. To check out some basic math for projectile problems, check out this video.

Check it out, and hopefully this will make some sense to help you understand what the math is telling us when we do problems.