The Physics of Basketball Brittney LeBlanc Physics 122 Physics comes into play throughout our lives‚ in absolutely everything we do‚ especially in sports such as basketball. Although you do not need to be a physician to become a basketball player‚ if you understand the basic physics of basketball‚ it can be very beneficial to your game. Specifically‚ understanding the physics behind shooting‚ passing‚ and dribbling the basketball. A Canadian named‚ Dr. James Naismith‚ was instructed to create an
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WORKSHEET PHYSICS SECTION A Q1. Suppose you are in a dark room. Can you see the objects in the room? Can you see the objects outside the room? Explain your answer Q2. Write the two laws of reflection. Q3. Write two differences between diffused and regular reflection. Q4. Write whether in each case diffused or regular reflection takes place. a) Wood b) Polished surface c) Mirror d) Marble surface e) Chalk powder Q5. What is the angle of reflection if the angle between
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Physics of a Guitar (Rough Draft) The guitar is the most played instrument in the music world. The oldest surviving guitar is thought to be made around 1776 in Italy by Gaetano Vinaccia. Though‚ the guitar looks like a simple instrument to construct or play there is a lot of physics behind the creation of it‚ from the strings to the air inside‚ the anatomy‚ and the sound spectrum. There are three types of guitars that are made: nylon acoustic‚ steel-string‚ and electric. Acoustic guitars produce
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Yoyo is a toy that everyone has played at some point in their lives. Yoyo is more than twenty five thousand years old. It is the second oldest toy‚ after dolls. The yoyo was first documented to be invented in Greece with wood‚ metal and terra cotta.2 .The disks were decorated with the pictures of their gods. The yoyo moved to the Orient around 1800. The yoyo was used as a weapon in Philippines. Their version was large with sharp edges and spikes attached to a twenty foot long rope for flinging at
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The Physics of Badminton Gerard Ramos Physics 4A Prof. Scott Hildreth I would like to start off with a light introduction to the sport of Badminton. Badminton is a sport that isn’t too popular in the United States; some people would even say that it shouldn’t even be called a “sport”. The majority see badminton from a “back-yard sport” point of view‚ part of this is due to the lack of actual badminton court facilities in America‚ also because it’s a bit expensive to play. Badminton is not
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3. Recent technological developments have allowed greater use of the electromagnetic spectrum 1. describe electromagnetic waves in terms of their speed in space and their lack of requirement of a medium for propagation In space (a vacuum) electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light‚ a constant equal to 3.00108ms1. Unlike sound waves‚ electromagnetic waves do not vibrate particles‚ therefore they do not need a medium (substance) to propagate (move). 2. identify the electromagnetic wavebands
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The Physics of Carousel A Research Paper Presented to International program-physics Global Prestasi School In partial fullfilment of the Requirements for the IGCSE-Physics preparatory class by Nandira Kirana Thaib January 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page What is a carousel?....................................................................................................... 2 History…………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 The Physics of Carousel……………………………………………………………………. 4 Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………
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In this quote‚ Chief Bromden says‚ “I been silent so long it’s going to roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened‚ this is too awful to be the truth! But‚ please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”(Act 1 32) Chief Bromden‚ a long-term patient in Nurse Ratcheds psychiatric ward‚ narrates the events of the novel. The novel
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people fail to realize the importance of physics in athletics. People who are untrained in the scientific field may believe that an athlete’s performance level is solely based on their skill-set‚ such as strength and training. However‚ one’s ability to employ physics concepts is the true determinant for success. This is imperative to dancers; most movement and technique can be improved dramatically by following Newton’s laws accordingly. By utilizing key physics concepts‚ a dancer can improve by locating
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gives rise Joseph Henry (1830) discovered the reverse effect‚ the production of an electric potential Maxwell‚ ( c.1856‚) developed ideas mathematically in his theory of electromagnetic radiation. Birth of Modern Physics ( late 19th cent. ) most of classical physics was complete‚ Wilhelm Roentgen (1895) the discoveries of X rays radioactivity by A. H. Becquerel (1896)‚ the electron by J. J. Thomson (1897)‚ and Ernest Rutherford 1911 interpreted experimental evidence as
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