Kicking Footballs

We are going to be testing these different factors in our project:
Speed of the football after kick
Accuracy of football
Distance traveled by football
For each of these we will try different angles and positions on the ball.  For Speed we will use video analysis.  For accuracy we will see how far away it is from a specific target.  Distance, well.... it pretty much explains itself
We will probably also use the high speed camera to see the impact of the foot on the ball.
 
 
 
 
ANALYSIS
 
Alright so we started the project out by taking a high speed video Eric kicking a couple footballs. 
 
 
 
 
Using the above video. We took the data that we got out of the tracker program, and used that data to find velocitay. It was a pretty easy equation V=D/T so i took the distance in the x direction and the distance in the y direction, squared each and added them together and took the square root of the answer to find the real diastance. The equation is x2 + y2 = h0.5. You might recognize this equation because it is the pothagoreum therom. We after we found the distance for both the leg and the ball we simply divided by the time and got the velocity of Eric's leg before the kick was 8.77m/s and during the kick the velocity was 7.454m/s. The ball's velocity was 20.867m/s after Eric kicked it.
 
Next we found the acceleration this equation was A=Vf - Vi / T. So we took the velocitys we just found from above and divided them by the times. The before the kick leg had and acceleration of 70.726 m/s2 and during the kick the leg had an acceleration of -109.667 m/s2. The ball had an accerleration of 434.73m/s2. 
 
Now we need to find the force. First we found the force of the ball. The equation for force is F=M*A. For the ball it was a mass of .43kg multiplied by the accerleration of 434.73m/s2. That got us the answer of 186.934 newtons. For the leg it was a little harder becuase we didn't have the mass of just Eric's leg but we used the link Mr. Dickie gave us with the different percentages of body parts and found out that a leg is about 20% of the whole body. So we first multiplied Erics mass of 80kg by .2 and got the leg mass to equal 16kg. From there it was simply pulg the numbers in to the equaltion so the force of Eric's leg before the kick was 1131.61N and during it was -1754.67N.
 
The next piece we found was momentum and impulse. The momemtum equation is P=M*V and the Impulse equation is I=F*T so we already figured all these parts so it was more pulging in the numbers. The momentum of Eric's leg before was 140.32 kg m/s and the impulse was also 140.32 kg m/s. The momentum during the kick was 119.26 kg m/s and the impulse was -1.316 kg m/s. For the ball the momentum was 8.973 kg m/s and the impulse was the same. The impulse was the same for the before kick and the ball because impulse measures the change in momentum. For both the before kick and the ball, the momentum at the end of it was equal to the change in momentum because they both started with 0 momentum.
 
Now we have the last piece we calulated and that was Kentic energy, or energy in motion. The equation for this is Ke=1/2*M*V2. So the before kicks Ke was 615J. Accoding to the law of conservation of energy the after kick's Kenetic energy added to the ball's kenetic energy should equal the before kick's. So our after kick was meausered at 444.49 J and the ball was measuered at 93.62 J. We added those together but came up shy of the magic number of 615, we only got 538.11. We then did a percent error on the two numbers to see really how far we were off, so the equation for that is ( |accepted-experiment| / accepted)*100. So the accepted would be 615 and experiment would be 538.11. We got a percent error of about 12
 
 
Eric's Leg
 
 
 
The Football
t
x
y
 
t
x
y
0.432
0.025
0.683
 
0.56
1.133
0.127
0.436
0.048
0.676
 
0.564
1.184
0.156
0.44
0.073
0.67
 
0.568
1.263
0.213
0.444
0.089
0.667
 
0.572
1.333
0.257
0.448
0.108
0.657
 
0.576
1.39
0.321
0.452
0.124
0.648
 
0.58
1.463
0.384
0.456
0.146
0.632
 
0.584
1.527
0.425
0.46
0.162
0.632
 
0.588
1.584
0.479
0.464
0.171
0.622
 
0.592
1.644
0.527
0.468
0.194
0.606
 
0.596
1.708
0.575
0.472
0.213
0.59
 
0.6
1.787
0.619
0.476
0.238
0.575
 
0.604
1.889
0.689
0.48
0.248
0.556
 
0.608
1.946
0.74
0.484
0.26
0.54
 
 
 
 
0.488
0.279
0.517
 
 
 
 
0.492
0.298
0.489
 
 
 
 
0.496
0.311
0.47
 
 
 
 
0.5
0.333
0.448
 
 
 
 
0.504
0.356
0.41
 
 
 
 
0.508
0.384
0.378
 
 
 
 
0.512
0.41
0.349
 
 
 
 
0.516
0.438
0.308
 
 
 
 
0.52
0.463
0.279
 
 
 
 
0.524
0.505
0.238
 
 
 
 
0.528
0.546
0.203
 
 
 
 
0.532
0.59
0.175
 
 
 
 
0.536
0.644
0.149
 
 
 
 
0.54
0.695
0.133
 
 
 
 
0.544
0.752
0.121
 
 
 
 
0.548
0.813
0.108
 
 
 
 
0.552
0.879
0.108
 
 
 
 
0.556
0.956
0.121
 
 
 
 
0.56
0.994
0.127
 
 
 
 
0.564
1.044
0.137
 
 
 
 
0.568
1.114
0.156
 
 
 
 
0.572
1.159
0.165
 
 
 
 
0.576
1.194
0.194
 
 
 
 
0.58
1.219
0.219
 
 
 
 
0.584
1.257
0.251
 
 
 
 
0.588
1.286
0.283
 
 
 
 
0.592
1.314
0.305
 
 
 
 
0.596
1.356
0.343
 
 
 
 
0.6
1.4
0.384
 
 
 
 
0.604
1.422
0.413
 
 
 
 
0.608
1.454
0.429
 
 
 
 
0.612
1.476
0.463
 
 
 
 
0.616
1.498
0.511
 
 
 
 
0.62
1.517
0.546
 
 
 
 
0.624
1.533
0.568
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
These are the graphs that represent to data tables above it. The first graph goes with the data from Eric's kick and the second graph is for the data from the ball.
 
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