READ: Projectile Motion

To create this photograph, a camera shutter was opened eighteen times, producing eighteen consecutive images of the snowboarder as he jumped. You can clearly see that there are both vertical and horizontal components to his overall parabolic motion. To complete calculations on this sort of two-dimensional motion, it is necessary to consider the vertical and horizontal vectors separately. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to accurately estimate the time elapsed over the course of this image and between shutter openings, knowing only the maximum vertical height attained by the snowboarder. You will also know how to accurately estimate his maximum vertical height using only the time he spent in the air.