{"id":872,"date":"2013-01-20T07:35:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T04:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/?page_id=872"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:31:18","slug":"puzzler-3-two-cannon-balls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/myp2-3-science\/term-1-puzzlers\/puzzler-3-two-cannon-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzler #3. Two Cannon Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two identical cannons&nbsp;are aimed&nbsp;directly at each other. The only difference is that the cannon on the left is at the top of a cliff and shooting&nbsp;downward, the one on the right is aiming up.&nbsp; Disregarding air resistance, what will happen if the perfectly aligned charges&nbsp;are fired&nbsp;simultaneously and at the same speeds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concepts involved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>push force, pull force, air resistance, gravity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two identical cannons&nbsp;are aimed&nbsp;directly at each other. The only difference is that the cannon on the left is at the top of a cliff and shooting&nbsp;downward, the one on the right is aiming up.&nbsp; Disregarding air resistance, what will happen if the perfectly aligned charges&nbsp;are fired&nbsp;simultaneously and at the same speeds? Concepts involved:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2516,"parent":860,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-872","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Y7Kk-e4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/872\/revisions\/4152"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}