So let's look at first what slope-intercept form is. Slope intercept form is actually y equals mx plus b. The reason why it is called slope intercept form is because it gives a slope and an intercept.

I've been Googling for a while, but I can't seem to separate the wheat from the chaff in my search for a formula for calculating the direction you should fire in order to hit an object with constant ...

Let's pick a lab. Maybe it is a lab that looks at masses oscillating on a spring. In this lab, students could put different masses on the end of a spring and let it oscillate up and down.