The Rebound

The Rebound A few years after we were released form Nam, I decided to visit Mark Fossie in Cleveland. “O’Brien!” he exclaimed as he reached over for a brotherly hug. His once blonde hair had faded, as well as his eyes that were once raged with fire. I sat down with Fossie in his living room and shared stories about our lives after the war. He was now a man selling cars at a local dealership. He began to talk well about his daughter, Cam, as she ran down the stairs holding tightly to her porcelain doll. She ran over to her father and sat on his lap as he ran his fingers through her hair. “Speak of the devil,” he laughed, motioning toward his daughter, “you remember Cam.” She leaned over and wrapped her arms around Fossie, giving a slight…

does matter. Being stretched and warming up skills. “First up cartwheels,” My coach Jason said. Everyone would go through the lines on the floor and do cartwheels. Then we would all go through handstands, back walkovers, and Jumps. I had always loved doing these things because when I got a lot of power I would rebound and I felt like I could touch the sky. “Now everyone go to the corners; we are going to warm up our tumbling” yelled Jason. His voice was loud but soft and comforting at the same…

Jake was over on the far side of the gym shooting on one of the side rims. After coach was done talking in the huddle I walked over to Jake and introduced my self to him. I said “Hey Jake, Im coach Baker, how are you?” Jake looked at me with a big smile and said “Come rebound for me”. So while the rest of the team was working on defense, me and Jake worked together on the side rim, and to my surprise, Jake had a pretty good shot! This became a daily routine. The first half of practice I would…

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Review of literature I am going to be doing my science fair project this year on a ball’s rebound height. During this project I will be covering many things. For example, I will be covering the components that make a ball’s rebound height equal or less than its original height. I also will be covering what roles gravitation play in this experiment. In addition to that, during my project, I will be figuring out the history of a basketball and a super ball. Something different about the two balls…

Problem of the Week Pool Corners Problem Statement: For this problem of the week, we tested out rebounds and corners on a pool table. Our task for this POW, is to figure out where the ball would go if we followed the correct directions. If we hit the ball at a 45 degree angle, starting at the lower corner, and continued to hit the ball until it went into a corner pocket, where would it end up at? We had to figure out a pattern between the hits and rebounds. Doing this, we made many pool…

how many rebounds does it take before it goes into one of the 4 corner pockets. Which corner will it land in? Process: To start the problem I drew about 20 rectangles to represent the pool table in the problem and recorded the dimensions and rebounds by each rectangle. This took me about 3 days and was a little bit challenging because I wasn’t getting the correct amount of rebounds. I then put the dimensions in order so I could put them on my “Dimensions vs. Rebounds” table easily. Finally, I…

Pool Pocket Problem Statement: There are four sides and four corners. The corners are top left/right and bottom left/right. Top Left: 1 Top Right: 2 Bottom Left: 3 Bottom left: 4 The dimensions have to be a whole number and you have to start at the bottom left. Your goal is to land inside a corner. You’ll have the ball going 45 degrees all the time. If the four corners are a square, then the ball will go straight into the top right corner with no rebounds. If the four corners are a triangle,…

Pool Pockets Problem Statement: In this POW you have to find the rebounds on a rectangular pool table (4 holes) with whole number distances.Every shot is shot at a 45 degree angle and always shot from the lower left corner and what pocket it lands in. Process: I started out by drawing many rectangles with each many different dimensions ( 2*3, 2*1, 4*10, 2*9, etc.) Then i did the actual problem /experiment and counted the rebounds on each rectangle, and each will be shot from the bottom left…

Pool Pockets POW For this POW we had to figure out how many rebounds a ball would make on a pool table and which pocket it would land in if the pool table is rectangular and it’s dimensions are whole numbers, the ball always starts at a 45 degree angle in the lower left corner, the ball always rebounds at a 45 degree angle, and the ball keeps going until it hits one of the pockets which are only in the corners. I started out by drawing rectangles on a piece of graph paper to represent the…