Physics of Basketball:
In this project, we found a sport and an action of that sport. After we figured out a sports action, we had to find the physics behind that action. My group chose basketball as the sport and a free throw as the action. For the free throw, instead of shooting it over handed, we shot it underhanded(grandma style). The reason why we chose basketball was because it was a very popular sport at our school, and everyone plays it. We spent almost two weeks to complete this project.
Velocity: The rate of distance covered in a direction
Force: Push or pull an object
For finding the force hitting on the ball we used the equation FT=MV, F is the force, t is the time, and that was 0.55 seconds, m is the mass of the basketball which is 28.2 newtons or 6.3 lbs, and v is the change in velocity, and that was ______m/s. Then we substituted all the numbers and did all the steps to figure out our answer, and that got us ______ . What we found out first was that Ryan was shooting at a 55 degree angle, and the basketball was traveling in the air for 0.55 seconds. We then found out that the horizontal velocity of the basketball was 3.26 m/s. We found the horizontal velocity by using the equation V=change in distance over the change in time. Also, we found out that our vertical velocity was 8.8 m/s. Lastly, we found out that our total velocity was 9.4 m/s.
Reflection:
When we got into this project, and our teacher told us the project was going to be about sports, I thought, "Oh, this will be easy, sports are what I'm best at." Once the project got started, it was nothing that I expected. It was harder than I thought, so I sometimes had a hard time working on it. I felt like I did a lot of work in my group, but my group didn't really contribute with to help and make the situation any easier. Especially on he calculations, I didn't understand the calculations at all, and no one helped me unless I told them to do something specifically, otherwise it was mostly me doing the work. I did get side tracked at times and didn't focus, but I was really stressed, and really frustrated that no one helped me a much as I want them too. Personally, I think that is also my fault because I didn't tell them to do anything specific, which mean't that they just sat there waiting for me to say something to them to do something. It could go either way, but me and my group should've communicated more to let each other know about what is happening.
I worked on this project with Owen Ondricek, Reema Heyday, and Ryan Lobber
In this project, we found a sport and an action of that sport. After we figured out a sports action, we had to find the physics behind that action. My group chose basketball as the sport and a free throw as the action. For the free throw, instead of shooting it over handed, we shot it underhanded(grandma style). The reason why we chose basketball was because it was a very popular sport at our school, and everyone plays it. We spent almost two weeks to complete this project.
Velocity: The rate of distance covered in a direction
Force: Push or pull an object
For finding the force hitting on the ball we used the equation FT=MV, F is the force, t is the time, and that was 0.55 seconds, m is the mass of the basketball which is 28.2 newtons or 6.3 lbs, and v is the change in velocity, and that was ______m/s. Then we substituted all the numbers and did all the steps to figure out our answer, and that got us ______ . What we found out first was that Ryan was shooting at a 55 degree angle, and the basketball was traveling in the air for 0.55 seconds. We then found out that the horizontal velocity of the basketball was 3.26 m/s. We found the horizontal velocity by using the equation V=change in distance over the change in time. Also, we found out that our vertical velocity was 8.8 m/s. Lastly, we found out that our total velocity was 9.4 m/s.
Reflection:
When we got into this project, and our teacher told us the project was going to be about sports, I thought, "Oh, this will be easy, sports are what I'm best at." Once the project got started, it was nothing that I expected. It was harder than I thought, so I sometimes had a hard time working on it. I felt like I did a lot of work in my group, but my group didn't really contribute with to help and make the situation any easier. Especially on he calculations, I didn't understand the calculations at all, and no one helped me unless I told them to do something specifically, otherwise it was mostly me doing the work. I did get side tracked at times and didn't focus, but I was really stressed, and really frustrated that no one helped me a much as I want them too. Personally, I think that is also my fault because I didn't tell them to do anything specific, which mean't that they just sat there waiting for me to say something to them to do something. It could go either way, but me and my group should've communicated more to let each other know about what is happening.
I worked on this project with Owen Ondricek, Reema Heyday, and Ryan Lobber