A complete IB DP Physics lesson pack on projectile calculations for Topic A.1 Kinematics (SL and HL, first assessment 2025): time of flight, range, maximum height and landing velocity, with an editable worksheet, a 29-slide deck, a teacher key, worked solutions and a questions-only assessment.

• Every problem uses one recipe. With fluid resistance negligible and g constant near Earth’s surface, a projectile is two motions on one clock: a horizontal column with zero acceleration, where distance is the horizontal velocity times the time, and a vertical column with acceleration g downward, where the suvat equations apply with up taken as positive. Students work the column that fixes the quantity they want, then pass the shared time across.
• Two worked examples are written to be done live.
• our multiple-choice exit-ticket questions, every option explained, target the classic traps.

IB Skills:

• Resolve vectors into two perpendicular components.
• Select and manipulate equations.

What’s included (all four projections as colour and black-and-white PDFs):

• Student Worksheet - 11 pages, fully editable self-contained HTML plus PDF
• Teacher Key - 14 pages, every answer, solution and marking point filled in
• Worked Solutions - every step shown, signs stated, units carried throughout
• Assessment - a questions-only paper with IB mark allocations
• Lesson deck - 29 slides with staged reveals and speaker notes, self-contained HTML plus PDF

Aligned to the IB DP Physics guide (first assessment 2025), Topic A.1 Kinematics, SL and HL: the behaviour of projectiles with the equations of motion resolved into vertical and horizontal components, for launches horizontally and at angles above and below the horizontal. Fluid resistance is neglected, a constant g is used near Earth’s surface, and the trajectory equation is never used.

Worksheet and deck open in any modern browser with nothing to install, and the worksheet is fully editable. SI units, IB notation and IB command terms throughout. Suitable for grades 11-12 (ages 16-19) as a lesson, cover lesson, homework or revision.