Bouncing Ball Calculation

by Long Huynh

Submitted : Fall 2013

A program was created to calculate final position and max height based off of calculations of a ball’s trajectory. The program calculates the new angles after a ball bounces, and it finds the final position of the ball, whether it makes it through a window, and other information about the ball going through a window. The three balls are a tennis ball, a golf ball, and a ball of unknown material. This is done by iterating over some kinematic equations several times, and summing or storing the results each time. All calculations were done in a program written in the coding language C. All code is completely original.

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