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Cirque du Soleil Stunt
Activity Information
Learning Goals
- Model a horizontal projectile and graph the object's motion independently with its horizontal and vertical components
Prior Knowledge Required
- Kinematics
- Unbalanced forces
- $\Sigma F \neq 0$
- Momentum
- Energy
Code Manipulation
- Copying/pasting code
- Modifying existing code
- While loops and if statements
- Translating equations into code
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Activity
Handout
Cirque du Soleil Stunt
As part of your Cirque du Soleil audition you are going to ride a bicycle horizontally off a 200 meter cliff and fall into an airbag that is in the back of a moving pickup truck driving towards the cliff. The people in charge of personnel safety at Cirque du Soleil are concerned about the level of danger in your proposed stunt. In order to reassure them that you have a reasonable chance of being successful with the stunt, you are going to create a computer simulation. Using the [[