What happened in this experiment was we watched a video of a basketball being shot toward the basketball hoop. Then we to the images of the ball at several points through the air. We then took that image a put in geogebra to set up a graph to see if the ball would make it or not. From what the image shows, the ball will end up hitting the back of the rim and will result in a missed shot.
For this activity, we found the inverse of y=x^2. We did this by factoring the function, from which we got the function +or-The square root of x. So we plugged that function into desmos and it gave us the function graphed. We then set up a the dashed line of y=x. And folded the sheet along that dotted line and found that the two functions matched up. Making sure they were the inverses of each other. i feel that this trick will aid me in finding the inverses of functions.
This graph shown above is the distance(in feet) that a skateboard dropped from a 21 inch ramp travels over a 35 second period. The driveway that skateboard was on was slanted, hence the skateboard declining in distance. The dotted line is that of the actual skateboard run and the green is that of my prediction of what the distance traveled would be. I wasn't very close with my guess on this one. The graph above shows the distance traveled of the same skateboard in example 1. The difference is that the skateboard is dropped down a 14 inch ramp. The rate of increase of distance is relatively the same as that is Ex. 1 but doesn't travel as far. Then decreases in distance after a certain point and goes back down the drive way.The dotted line is that of the actual skateboard run and the green is that of my prediction of what the distance traveled would be. I was still pretty far off on this one. This graph is that of the same skateboard in Ex.1 and Ex.2 but is dropped down a 7 inch ramp. This graph doesn't increase as fast as the first two but still manages to reach a descent distance. The dotted line is that of the actual skateboard run and the green is that of my prediction of what the distance traveled would be. I was pretty close on this one.
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