Damien Boisvert

Physics of Sports video

Ah, the day that we finished our Rube Goldberg unit, WE ARE BACK FOR MORE! Now in the field of video editing, we have made a video for the San Marin Basketball team.

These are my teammates’ websites. They have their points of view on their websites.

• Daniel Gernetzke
• Daniel Voelker

The Task

Our task was to make a video detailing the physics behind the sport that we chose. We decided to do basketball hoops. (I personally think that that was not a good idea, as I did not know anything about basketball or basketball hoops. I watch football! As I put it in the video,

I guess that I can shoot a hoop given a team that is falling asleep, passing me the ball, and the clock is waiting for the heat death of the universe! So, I DO BELIEVE THAT I AM FULY QUALIFIED TO EXPLAIN THIS.

Damien Boisvert

The Process

At the start, I did not have high hopes. I knew more about football, and basketball was foreign to me. What I ended up doing was recording slow motion videos of the basketball team.

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