Lunar Descent
Advanced HS
Physics
Javascript
Trigonometry
If you have finished tinkering with the Planetoids lab you can continue with this lab where we will now add gravity to the game! You have a little ship that you must fly around and land safely on the moon. If you approach the landing too fast you will crash the ship.
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Learning Objecties
At the end of this lesson students will…
- Apply kinematic equations to code a ships descent through a gravitational field.
- Apply Newton’s laws of motion to code how an object behaves under different force conditions.
- Apply gravitational field strength to the base planetoids game.
- Evaluate the free fall time displayed on the simulation for realism.