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10899 - Billiard again

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:05 pm
by artem
Please help me.
I have some questions about this problem.

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1 Whats means this sentence "Before the first bounce, the ball increases its distance from the lower left corner of the table."
2 Initinally ball have coordinantes (a/2,b/2) (i think this coord of middle of table)?
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(0,b)                              (a,b)
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|           90 degrees           |
|                 |              |
|                 |              |
|   180 degrees -- -- 0 degrees  |
|                 |              |
|                 |              |
|            270 degrees         |
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(0,0)                              (a,0)

This image is right?

Re: Problem 10899

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:33 pm
by Martin Macko
artem wrote:2 Initinally ball have coordinantes (a/2,b/2) (i think this coord of middle of table)?
Yes. :D (Watch the division if a or b is odd.)
artem wrote:3

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(0,b)                              (a,b)
----------------------------------
|           90 degrees           |
|                 |              |
|                 |              |
|   180 degrees -- -- 0 degrees  |
|                 |              |
|                 |              |
|            270 degrees         |
----------------------------------
(0,0)                              (a,0)
This image is right?
Yes, it is :wink:
artem wrote:1 Whats means this sentence "Before the first bounce, the ball increases its distance from the lower left corner of the table."
As the initial angle is between 0 and 90 degrees, the ball will go up and/or right from the middle of the table. Thus increasing its distance from lower left (0,0) corner.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:35 pm
by artem
Thank you very much Martin, i found my logical mistake (i think that length of path of ball is s*v, but i mistaken, length of path of ball is s*v/2) and got AC.