What occurs when an object travels in a curved path?

An object following any type of curved motion will necessarily be changing its direction as it moves. This change in direction constitutes a change in velocity, since velocity is a vector, and, thus, velocity has both a size, the speed, and a direction. So, if an object travels in a curved path, it changes velocity, and, thus, accelerates. This acceleration must be tied to a force. Newton's laws of motion explain this. Therefore, whenever an object travels in a curved path, there must be an unbalanced force acting upon it.

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Since you have not included the experiment situation and the data, of course, i can not give you specific details about it. but i can you with this question.1) i will assume that the motion is projectile (parabolic) motion.2) yes, the horizontal distance depends on the horizontal velocity as, naming vx the horizontal velocity and t the time, it is: x = vx × t3) now, observe that the flight time depends on the vertical velocity as, naming voy the initial vertical velocity, t the time and y the vertical distance before reaching the ground: y = yo + voy×t - gt² / 2.the higher the initial vertical velocity (voy) the longer the object will be flying and so t will be higher in the equation for the horizontal distance.that explains the relationship between the horizontal distance and the horizontal velocity.