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SUBMITTER: Venkadesan M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5414278 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Royal Society open science 20170426 4
The accuracy of throwing in games and sports is governed by how errors in planning and initial conditions are propagated by the dynamics of the projectile. In the simplest setting, the projectile path is typically described by a deterministic parabolic trajectory which has the potential to amplify noisy launch conditions. By analysing how parabolic trajectories propagate errors, we show how to devise optimal strategies for a throwing task demanding accuracy. Our calculations explain observed spe ...[more]