TED-Ed: The math behind Michael Jordan's legendary hang time - Andy Peterson and Zack Patterson

The video explores the concept of hang time, the duration an object stays airborne, and its limitations due to gravity. It explains how gravity affects hang time and derives a quadratic equation to model it. The video uses Michael Jordan's famous dunk to illustrate the equation and compares hang time on Earth with that on Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon, highlighting the impact of different gravitational forces.

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