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Projectile motion: NECO Physics Past Questions and Answers

What the WAEC syllabus covers in Projectile motion

Our summary: How an object thrown into the air moves, including its range, greatest height and time of flight.

  • Concept of projectiles as an object thrown/released into space (Applications of projectiles in warfare, sports etc. Simple problems involving range, maximum height and time of flight may be set.)

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NECO Physics questions on Projectile motion

  1. NECO 2009A stone is thrown with a speed of 10ms at an angle of 30° to the horizontal, Calculate its time of flight, (g = 10ms2)
  2. NECO 2009A projectile attains its maximum height when the angle of projection is?
  3. NECO 2005A projectile is projected with an initial velocity u, at an angle θ to the horizontal. The maximum height attained is.
  4. NECO 2004A projectile fired with initial velocity, u will attain its maximum height H when the angle of projection θ is
  5. NECO 2002An object is projected with a velocity of 50 ms^ -1 from ground level at an angle θ to the vertical. If the total time of flight of the projectile is 5s, what…

Years with Projectile motion questions in DeeepSolve's question bank

From the past questions DeeepSolve holds, not a count of everything the exam body has set.

  • 2009
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