SAMPLE: Poetry

Title: Its Your Turn To Look For It!

Topic: projectile motion

Background: the poem entitled The Arrow and The Song links science and the humanities through the study of an arrow's flight path.

Process:

1. Go to: http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem1317.html

2. Answer the following questions.

3. Create cartoons to accompany the answers to Q.'s 3, 5, and 7.

Questions:

1. Who wrote the poem?

2. Name any two other poems by the poet, dealing with science or not.

3. a) If the arrow were shot straight up at 20.5 m/s, find its altitude.

b) The archer would have how many seconds to move out of the way?

4. a) If the arrow were shot at 25 m/s, 30⁰, how far downrange would it fly?

b) To what altitude would it climb?

c) Why would the arrow in Stanza 1 be hard to follow?

5. a) Think: What launch angle other than 30⁰ would produce the same downrange distance?

b) Generally, this angle would result in what changes in flight time and altitude?

6. In Stanza 2, why can the arrow's sound not be seen?

7. An arrow is released at 28.3 m/s 35⁰ toward the oak mentioned in the poem. If the tree is 10 m tall and 15 m from the archer, will the arrow clear or hit it?