Cannonball [Virtual Demonstration]

This is the classic physics thought experiment attributed to Galileo: What happens to a cannonball dropped from the mast of a moving ship?

Except here, we animate it. And in 1968, a talented crew reenacted and filmed it for the Project Physics curriculum. The footage was included in Ztek's Physics: Cinema Classics.

The lesson here invites students to argue for various outcomes and then invest in one. After seeing the actual outcome, students are asked to describe how the demonstration could be modified to produce other outcomes.

Cannonball [Virtual Demonstration] free resource at Teachers Pay Teachers

Includes

Student document (print-friendly Google Docs file on Google Drive)

Observation presentation (link embedded in student document)

Answer key