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Basketball Parabola

Basketball Parabola
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2017-03-14 11:03
FunctionCoordinate GeometryProbability & StatisticsOptimization
This example demonstrates the parabolic trajectory formed by a basketball's flight path. It involves core math concepts like parabola, expected value, sequences and series, random variables, exponentials, and cuboids. Construction uses GeoGebra objects a, b, c, f, A, B, pic1, including parameters, function graphs, and sliders. Suitable for high school and above, teaching function applications and probability statistics models.

GeoGebra Commands & Parameters

  1. Numeric a(0)
  2. Numeric b(0)
  3. Numeric c(0)
  4. f(x) = (a * x^(2)) + (b * x) + c
  5. Point A(-3.7338, 0)
  6. Point B(9.2662, 0)