Help plotting a projectile motion graph

Hello, I'm trying to plot a projectile motion graph at the given angles using this code.

clear all
angle=[0.4, 0.6, pi/4, 1.0, 1.2];
V0=120;
g=-9.8
t=0:.01:500;
Ax=0;
Ay=g;
x=V0*cos(angle);
y=V0*sin(angle)-9.8*t;
plot(x,y);

I'm a novice when I comes to coding, could someone help me fix this code so that I could plot 5 projectile motion graphs for the 5 given angles

[Shawn Wachter]

Perhaps the following line needs correction: y=V0*sin(angle)-9.8*t;.

I think you want to use t**2, as shown here: y=V0*sin(angle)-9.8*t^2;

Hope this helps!

[Image Analyst]

Yes, that's what I showed him 8 years ago in the Answer section below.

y = yVelocity .* t + (1/2) * Ay .* t.^2;

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Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Close, but you need to have a loop over the angle. Try this. Use a smaller max time if you want to notice the projectile actually going up before it falls.

clc;
clear all
workspace;
format compact;
format long g;
angle = [0.4, 0.6, pi/4, 1.0, 1.2];
V0 = 120;
g = -9.8;
t = 0 : .01 : 500;
Ax = 0;
Ay= g;
numberOfAngles = length(angle);
for k = 1 : numberOfAngles
  thisAngle = angle(k);
  xVelocity = V0 * cos(thisAngle);
  yVelocity = V0 * sin(thisAngle);
  x = xVelocity .* t + (1/2) * Ax .* t.^2;
  y = yVelocity .* t + (1/2) * Ay .* t.^2;
  subplot(2, 3, k);
  plot(x, y, 'b-', 'LIneWidth', 3);
  caption = sprintf('Angle = %.3f radians = %.2f degrees\n', ...
    thisAngle, thisAngle*180/pi);
  title(caption, 'FontSize', 15);
  grid on;
  xlim([0 6e4]);
end
% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]);