BASKETBALL!!

this weekend, while i was walking my dog through the park, i saw some people playing basketball, or rather shooting free throws. i realized that this had to do something with physics!! BUT i didnt have my phone or camera with me at the time so i had to draw a picture :( hahaha. anyways, the horizontal displacement would be how far the person who was shooting the basketball was standing from the hoop. if the person was actually standing on the free throw line, this distance would be 4.6 m (haha i googled that thanks to micah :)) the vertical displacement would be the distance from the hoop to the ground. since the basketball is being thrown in the air, its y-acceleration is -9.8 m/s squared, which is the free-fall acceleration on earth. the x-acceleration would be 0 m/s squared. the inital velocity of the ball would be greater than its final velocity. hopefully next time when i see something relating to physics, i will be able to take a picture of it so i wont have to draw! :)