Ball Trajectory Planning

[engunneer]

I missed this thread earlier when I was looking for places to post my spreadsheet, so I made a new thread instead. I hope it doesn't fracture the conversation too much.

I wanted to share a spreadsheet I made with CD. It helps with calculations for the ideal projectile in a variety of circumstances. Most importantly, it helps with the case of a fixed-velocity varying-angle shooter, as well as other cases. Please see my blog post about it: link. The file is about 12KB too large to post directly here.

It doesn't take the drag into account, but will give an order of magnitude for different situations. It also tells you how much variation in your velocity or angle there would be between each of the hoops, so there is an indication of how much tolerance there is on the velocity or angle.

The formula for predicting the angle of a shot given a range and an initial velocity is non-trivial when you add in the height of the shooter and the height of the basket, so I have a macro doing iterative loop to calculate those values.