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1-008-HangTime-ModelingScenario

Author(s): Brian Winkel

SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations

Keywords: gravity hang tim Newton's Second Law of Motion jump shot

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Resource Image We present a modeling opportunity for students in which they model the vertical position of a basketball player taking a jump shot. The goal of the scenario is to get students to consider the meaning of the notion ``hang-tune.''

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Let us consider the phenomena known as ``hang time" in sports. Often the announcer in a televised football game will refer to the hang time for a punter's kick or a basketball announcer will say a player appears to ``hang in the air." What is that all about? Why would something appear to be so? We consider a one dimensional representation of an object going up and coming down and ask what the notion of hang time might suggest in this context.

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Author(s): Brian Winkel

SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations

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