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What are kinematics and what do they do?

In the early 1600’s a man named Galileo threw away two thousand years of thinking and changed the way we all look at the world. Observing the world around him, he started applying mathematical equations to the way things moved. His famous experiment dropping differently weighted balls from the tower of Pisa was only one small example. He was excommunicated for his beliefs and teachings but persisted anyway. His work inspired many who followed including an Englishman named Newton who added greatly to the earlier works and brought about the publication of the Laws of Motion in his book Principia.

If we apply the Laws of Motion combined with the Vector and Scalar information we have already learned, we can predict with some accuracy the behavior of the flight of objects.