Rafid Syed's Reflection

This is what i learned about projectile motion in soccer, any soccer ball that is being kicked is considered to have a horizontal and vertical velocity component as shown in this diagram (blue=horizontal velocity component, red=vertical velocity component).

Throughout the path of the projectile, change occurs only in the vertical direction due to the influence of gravity, while the horizontal component of the velocity will not change. (This is not quite true, there will be a very small slowdown in the horizontal direction due to air resistance).

The vertical velocity of the projectile gets smaller on the upward path until it reaches the top of the parabola. At the top of the parabola, the vertical component of the velocity is zero. After that point, the vertical component changes direction and the magnitude increases in the downward direction and the vertical distance traveled during each subsequent time interval increases.

What Ive found difficult about this topic was basically how projectile motion effected how high the object reached after being launched.