SOLUTION: What is the hang time of a basketball player with a 35 inch reach?

Question 214935: What is the hang time of a basketball player with a 35 inch reach?
Answer by drj(1380) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What is the hang time of a basketball player with a 35 inch reach?

Step 1. The equation is given as where h is the height, g is the gravity given as 32 ft/sec^2 and t is the time to travel a given height.

Step 2. The hang time is 2*t (t to go up and anther t to go down)

Step 3. Solve for t in Step 1 as follows:

where we multiplied by 2/g to both sides of the equation

where we took the square root to both sides of the equation and selected the positive time.

where 12 inch = 1 feet or 35 inches is 35/12 feet

Step 4. Hang time is 0.3646 seconds.

I hope the above steps were helpful.

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