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Originally Posted by engunneer
That part is really tricky. What I did in my calc (which does not do drag!) was to have it iterate the angle until the calculated path went through the target basket. I did this using Excel's goalseek function.
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It's not tricky if you're ignoring drag and magnus effect (backspin)
1. There's an explicit closed-form solution. See the last two equations on page 2 of the attachment.
1 of course, ignoring drag and backspin is probably not a valid assumption for this case. see post#10.
Note that these comments are based on the 2006 FRC game rules, and they may or may not apply to the 2007 game. Your mileage may vary. - dlavery [more] 
15-02-2012, 09:42
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