Question

Klay Thompson has an amazingly consistent 3 point shot. He consistently releases from let's say 3.0 meters above the ground to enter a hoop 22 ft away (note units). The hoop is 10 ft off the ground.

a. If he shoots with a release angle of 30 degrees, how fast is the ball as it leaves his hands?

b. The same shot is attempted, at the same angle, but bounces off the back of the rim. It went 0.15m past what he wanted. What was the speed on release for this shot?

c. (Opinion) Would you rather be able to do this problem via repetition and feel like Klay does? Or would you rather go through the numbers so that you could program a robot to shoot a ball better than Klay or Curry or Jordan?

Answer 1

Note that I have converted feet into meter.

i think a robot would be more like an expert because we have all the measurements and we just need to write a program and robot will put the basket all the time.

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