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Tennis Ball Fury!

By

Thomas Kendrick and Colby Bennett



Using simly a tennis racket, a tennis ball, and an initial throw, it is possible to analyze the sport of tennis using physics!

In order to do this, a Sony Handicam was used with a tripod to film the action of a ball hitting a tennis racket at a slower speed. This slower speed made it a bit easier to use the Logger Pro program and get the velocities and all that fancy stuff from the ball and racket.

Normally, tennis is played with at least one person on each side hitting the ball back and forth with a racket, but in this case, there will only be one racket in the experiment.

The video that is used to analyze our motion is at this link: Tennis Ball Fury Video! Action action action!  After watching the video, follow the links to the next few pages!

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