Kinematics

This picture I took shows many example of kinematics. I took this at the UH Volleyball game this past Friday when they played University of San Francisco. I took this picture of one play in the game, where UH won the point. Each volleyball player who hits the ball in this play displays kinematics. For one, that volleyball is going many meters per second, but I’m not too sure how fast…it’s just fast. Velocity is defined by how fast something is going and in which direction, and this play can show that the volleyball is going fast in the direction towards their opponent’s net. After researching how fast volleyballs usually travel, the average is about 70mph for the professional players (when they serve the ball), so that means the volleyball in this picture was traveling at a speed of about 31 meters per second if you convert it into the SI unit for speed.