Period+3+Chat+Projectile+Motion+1

MS. TODD'S COMMENTS ARE CAPATILIZED AND WERE ADDED AFTER THE CHAT. NOTE THAT A PORTION OF THIS CHAT WAS NOT COPIED OVER FROM SYNCHRONEYES.

Teacher: How does the gravity affect the balloon? (SEE COMMENTS IN PREVIOUS 1ST AND 2ND PERIOD) Katie: The higher the gravity the more the balloon weighed Courtney: The higher the gravity, the more the balloon travels adit: When it was high the balloon didn't go as far Joseph: Weight is basically how much something is pulling on an object. Colin: If you decrease the gravity the range increases Victor Courtney, are you sure? Courtney Oh sorry, I meant the lower the gravity the less it traveles. I got mixed up Joseph: So, since higher gravity means gravity is pullign down on the balloon more, the ballon weighs more. Colin: yes Teacher: Courtney, think again, as the gravity went up what happened to the distance? Victor: lower equals farther Billy: yes Christina: Higher equals less Colin: the distance shrunk Myra: the higher the less it travels Nupur: it is kinda like opposite lower-smaller and higher-shorter Katie: High wind made it go further Victor: Not wind, gravity Teacher: What about wind? How does wind affect projectile motion? Will it affect some objects more than others? (SEE COMMENTS IN 2ND PERIOD) Joseph: Wind pushed the balloon along with the wind in the direction it (meaning the wind) is traveling. Katie: How do we know on that program which way the wind is coming from? Jared: If the wind pushed the object from behind it would go further Victor: wind pushes the balloon further Alex: the wind made the ballon drift more Nupur: the wind depends on which direction it moves Billy: it did not go as far adit: When there was more wind it went farter since the balloon was pushed Katie: the program assumes the wind is coming from behind Victor: it affects heavier objects more than less heavy objects Colin: if you added a tail wind, that increased the ballon's overall velocity allowing it to travel farther. Christina: The wind wasn't how hard the wind was blowing, it only changes the direction, remember? Courtney: Katie, it said it above where you play the game, along with the other directions. Ruchi: The wind affects the balloon a lot because a lot of wind would make the balloon go further Katie: Oh- thanks Nupur: if the wind is coming at you the object will come back at you and if the wind is going away from you the oject will travel ffarther Alex: if you had the gravity very high and you had wind very high the ballon would go farther than with no wind Joseph: If the wind is going opposite the direction of the balloon, and if the wind is stronger than the speed of the balloon, then the balloon will start turning in the opposite direction. Victor: In the game, the wind was like a number line Teacher: If the wind was blowing towards the thrower, how would this affect the motion? Away or behind the thrower? Nupur: it will come back at you Christina: It's like a boomerang. Colin: the projectile's overall velocity would decrease, which would decrease the range Nupur: sorry i mean it will come back at you if it is comeing at you Christina: Could you rephrase that? Katie: if the wind was coming towards the thrower, then the higher the wind the less distance it would go Billy: if the wind was blowing tored the thower it came back Joseph: If the wind was blowing towards the thrower, the wind would make the balloon travel a shorter distance. Just how short would depend on the strength of the wind. Ruchi: If the wind was blowing towards the thrower the balloon would go forward a little bit and then come back. adit: The wind would push the balloon back at the thrower if thrown hard.