COMMAX 2020 UiTM Kampus Kuala Terengganu

Basketball was being known as a fun sport for any person young or old. It’s is a great way of exercising and a great way to have fun with our friends and possibly can make new friends with others. According to Daniel Jarasa in his article, he said that basketball was a very easy way to have fun with others rather than sitting on the couch all day playing video games or watching television. When playing basketball, shooting was a very basic practice for all entire basketball players. Shooting in basketball was using projectile motion where it is shown when the players want to shoot the ball into the hoop. The projectile motion was being used to help the entire basketball player's score in their game. In this research, it will be used to determine the perfect optimal release angle and initial velocity that players should take to perform in free throws and get the best shooting in the basketball game. It will discuss the relationship between the optimal release angle with the height of the players, the relationship between initial velocity with the height of the players, and the relationship between the optimal release angles with the time taken for the ball to reach the basketball hoop. It also focuses on the calculation to maximize the height of the ball can reach before shooting the ball. To conduct this research, it will use BlueJ software, newton’s law, and the projectile motion concept that will be applied in this research by using a calculus-based model. From this research, the value of the initial velocity, optimal release angle, and the time is taken for the ball to reach the hoop were being found. It can be concluded that the increasing height of the basketball players will affect and decreasing the initial velocity, optimal release angle, and time taken for the ball to reach the hoop.