2007-03-12 07:22:09 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Just state a law and you can think of many, many things in basketball or any other game that apply to it.
Basketball is packed with bodies (people's bodies, balls) in motion and forces exchanged between people and balls and the ground and the hoop and stuff.
2007-03-12 07:31:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
'For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.'
This is his third law of motion and it explains why when you apply force and push the ball down when you dribble, it bounces back up.
The second law show that the amount of force you apply to the basketball is the mass of the basketball x the acceleration.
The first law states that the basketball will forever be in motion unless and outside force acts on it, like you catching it or the fluid friction of the air.
2007-03-12 07:37:16 · answer #2 · answered by Person 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that a basketball when thrown will continue until it is acted on by another object.... Say your head. Then your head and the basketball will move in opposite directions and your head will continue until it is acted on by another object....Say the floor.
2007-03-12 07:32:32 · answer #3 · answered by Ernie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just *exactly* the same as they apply to everything else (at sub-relativistic velocities)
HTH âº
Doug
2007-03-12 07:25:18 · answer #4 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋