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Re: side shooter
A possible answed to how to measure speed.
(Bearing in mind I haven't yet done it for this year but have done it with soccer balls being kicked etc)
Veiner out of Portland has a program called LabPro. Works on PC or Mac and besides being able to use sensors like the TI CBL stuff it has a import movie componant that allows you to use any digital image (Any handheld works well) and then by analyzing the pictures frame by frame you can get velocities and accelerations pretty easily.

Ask a physics teacher to see if they have the software. Its cheap (about 140) for what it does.

I should have numbers by weeks end based on the software.
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