What is the difference between Projectile motion and a Rocket motion? A projectile has no motor/rocket on it, so all of its momentum is given to it as it is launched. An example of a projectile would be pen that you throw across a room.A rocket or missile does have a motor/rocket on it so it can accelerate itself while moving and so resist other forces such as gravity.In mechanics point of view projectile don’t have any particular shape it is a point mass. Whereas rocket has a particular shape and hence it has center of gravity situated at particular point on its body. Therefore rocket motion comes under kinetics and projectile comes under kinematics.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 05:46:17 +0000
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