How Is Geometry Used In Football

Geometry is considered one of the most elementary sciences known to man. It is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogs. Geometry is used everywhere around us, even in places many people would not suspect it to be used. For example, geometry is used in football when constructors want to build a football stadium; it is used when creating the football, as well as, when a coach is drawing out plays on a chalkboard for his players. The game of football has many geometrical shapes, including the right angles that can be found just about everywhere on the field. If you examine every football stadium you will see that they are marked equally. The shape of a football field is rectangular. There are certain lengths, which are expressed in yards for the measurement of the rectangle.
The reason a football bounces so strangely is because of its funny shape. It is shaped like this because a long time ago it was made from an inflated pig's bladder, which is what the first footballs were made of. Many people believe that a football is oval but the scientific name for a football is a prolate spheroid, a shape in which the polar axis is greater than the equatorial diameter. This basically means the center is the fattest point and it gets skinnier as you get closer to the ends. The prolate spheroid shape of an American football allows it to be thrown with less drag. Throwing it so that the ball spins around its short axis while in flight dramatically reduces drag further, allowing it to be thrown much farther than other ball