In the Projectile Motion episode of NBC Learn's "The Science of NFL Football," you see that punted footballs travel in an arc known to mathematicians as a parabola.

The main trick to solving projectile motion problems is to realize that you can treat the x-motion and y-motion as separate problems. Time is the connection between these two 1-D motion problems.

Season 2 Episode 405 | 30m 1s Projectile Motion: The terms projectile and trajectory are introduced. Students learn to describe horizontal and vertical components of a projectile’s motion.

A dude jumping on a moving trampoline is a great excuse to dive into the unexpected properties of projectile motion.

Projectile motion problems can easily become algebra problems that focus on identifying the right number in a diagram and substituting it into the correct equation.