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    My Favorite Experience

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    strings ties to them. The man there told us to take the string and wrap it around your fingers and put your fingers in your ear and then bang the metal against something hard, a table or the round. At first I tried this with a spoon and I heard a cool sound and he explained to us that the vibration from the spoon hitting the table went up the string and directly into my ear. Then he told me to try this with the slinky, by brother tried it before and told me that was the coolest thing he had ever heard

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    Forrest Gump, a role played by Tom Hanks, is a slowly speaking, grammatically flawed and a simple-minded man. He never knows what is exactly happening around him but his good heart and positive intensions eventually makes him a millionaire. He spends his childhood in Albama and he suffers from a crooked spine and is outfitted with leg braces for strengthening his back but later he runs out of those braces and when he starts running, he never stops. He has an IQ of below average 75 and is not able

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    Mathematics and Tennis By: Musse Y. Course: IB Math SL Teacher: Dr. Ley Since I was a kid I had good interest for tennis. I would spend hours just sitting and watching tennis games. By the time I was 8-years-old my dad bought a table tennis(ping pong table). He taught me how to play and keep a score. At first it was hard to learn, but once I get a hang of it was one of the best things I learned from my father. I still remember the first time I won a match between me and my father it

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    generation is critical for creating an interactive tennis simulation. In the field of tennis game because of the similarities between tennis and table tennis we study both for offering a structure and method to make headway toward our goal. Players under normal conditions do not target an individual point on the court, but conversely the small region. In the environment representation model, Ching-Hua (2010) presented a surface for the table tennis which divided into twelve squares of the same size

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    Tennis as a sport took its modern form during the mid-1800s and has since changed in its governing rules, styles of play and even the equipment used. The equipment used in tennis are mainly the tennis racquet and the tennis ball itself. The biggest changes can be observed in the development of new tennis racquets, where new technological advancements have allowed for better performing racquets that allow for better handling and power transfer from the player to the tennis ball. Many of the changes

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    What Bounces Higher a Wet Tennis Ball or Dry (NAME:Martin Bautista____________________ YEAR: 8.2_________________) BACKGROUND RESEARCH: Tomecek, S 2010, Experimenting With Everyday Science Sports, Chelsea House Books, New York,Usa, accessed 1 March 2017, . Jang, EJ 2014, The Coefficient of Restitution of Wet Tennis balls, ISB Journal of Science, accessed 3 March 2017, . Factors affected by a bouncing tennis ball 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana Campaign, accessed 3 March 2017,

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    each of the different balls bounce? Hypothesis: I predict the THREE different balls will bounce at different heights. Materials: Tennis ball, golf ball, ping pong ball Meter stick Procedure: Your group of 2 will be given 3 balls (a tennis ball, golf ball, and a ping pong ball). Hold one ball beside the top of the meter stick with the ZERO end touching the table. Hold one ball beside the top of the meter stick so it does not touch. Drop the ball. Have your partner record the height of the first

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    AIM OF THE EXPLORATION Way of scoring in Tennis makes it a different from other games. The unique point is that the scoring at the point level is not cumulative and hence, it is possible for a player scoring less points than her or his opponent to win a match. In this portfolio, we will explore  How to construct a probabilistic model for a tennis match in which the probabilities of winning points are used to analyze the probability of winning matches.  Charts, which will illustrate the

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    sales figures are usually a measure success, tennis is no exception. In North America, tennis can be measured by the annual racket and tennis ball sales (Heitner, 2015). Prince Sports, a sports racquet company, has several different product lines. Their Prince brand serves tennis, squash, and badminton players. Racquet ball players may recognize the Ektelon brand and the Viking product line equips platform or table tennis players. Prince Sport’s tennis line consists of over 150 different racquet

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    The goal of this paper is to analyze the effects of time in tennis through both statistical regression analyses. Since the time of when players used wooden tennis racquets and played solely at country clubs, the sport of tennis has progressed into a sport that requires top athletes in the world. Not only has the technology progressed for the better, but so as the physical demands. Similarly, the total amount of money in the sport, which was presented in the Player’s chapter the Pilic Affair, has

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