Louis kicked a football during the opening play of a high school football game. Which type of function could model the height of the football after the kick?

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Thomas Trujillo

3 May, 09:57

Louis kicked a football during the opening play of a high school football game. Which type of function could model the height of the football after the kick?

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Martha Frost · Answer 1

Ballistic motion is usually modeled by a quadratic function.

Step-by-step explanation:

The usual assumption is that the only force acting on the object is that due to gravity, and that it is constant and directed downward. With this assumption, along with the assumption of a flat Earth, the resulting model is a downward-opening quadratic function.