Thursday, September 5, 2013

Tallest basketball shot ever?

Check out this video:
Now, the height of that deck is reported as 98 m in the video, but the building is known to have a height of 96m, maybe that's the floor height and they estimate the person's height of the throw to be 98m.

The question is, how far away would you need to place the hoop if you threw the basketball at full speed straight out in front of you? What variables would you have to know in advance and how would you measure them. What variable is beyond your control that we often ignore in our fake plastic world of HS physics?

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