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Classroom note: A simple non-trivial student model of a bouncing soccer ball

Summary
When students have made some progress in studying ordinary differential
equations (ODEs) during a semester, small groups are given a soccer ball and
asked to determine the simplest model describing one bounce of the ball from
shoulder height. To start with, they play with the ball. However, after a few
weeks, they begin to ask penetrating questions and they are led to a simple
model that has a non-trivial twist to the solution.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1002000
Date30 August 2002
CreatorsJoubert, SV, Van Wyk, MA
PublisherTaylor &Francis
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText
FormatPdf
RightsTaylor & Francis
RelationInternational Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology

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