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An Optimal Basketball Free Throw
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Seppala-Holtzman, David – College Mathematics Journal, 2012
A basketball player attempting a free throw has two parameters under his or her control: the angle of elevation and the force with which the ball is thrown. We compute upper and lower bounds for the initial velocity for suitable values of the angle of elevation, generating a subset of the configuration space of all successful free throws. A…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Motion, Athletes, Computation