Modeling basketball free throws

SIAM Review

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 775-798

  Gablonsky, Joerg M ^a   Lang, Andrew S I D ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basketball; Calculus projects; Mathematical modeling

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TRAJECTORIES;

BASKETBALL; CALCULUS PROJECTS; FREE THROWS;

PROJECTILES;

EID: 28244446199     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036144598339555     Document Type: Article

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