My Slapshot In Hockey

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Last Thursday, I had a hockey practice, and before anyone else came on the ice, my brother Michael and I were just shooting around. To see how fast my slapshot is, I had him stand at the other end of the ice, and using his phone, see how long it took for my shot to go from one goal line to the other, exactly 60.96 meters. Keeping the puck on the ice the whole time during my shot, changing just the position of the puck, my slapshot took 4 seconds to cross the far goal line, making my slapshot move at a velocity of 15.24 meters per second. This calculation was done by divided the total displacement by the total time, 60.98 meters divided by 4 seconds. Finding the velocity of the puck relates to what we are doing in class, as we are talking about

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