that mound of dirt is really a trampoline.

though I bet that short guy could still dunk in the nba...

Not a whole lot of physics necessary. The angle doesn't matter, because most healthy people are only a few inches short of a dunk attempt anyway, so about a foot of lift is probably enough.

I think the biggest thing is to look at his... "jump." At a glance, it looks like his whole jump consists of lifting his feet off the ground at the same time, not of actually getting any elevation for his torso, lol. That makes his trampoline jump not a lot better than standing on the trampoline and jumping.

@Shepppard Your first description was right on. He slows down, stutter-steps and jumps on the ground before he hits the trampoline.

If someone hit a trampoline and maintained their running speed and direction but added lift on top of that, they'd smash straight into the rim. The tilt of the tramp redirects your force upwards so you have the height and time for a tricky dunk while keeping your teeth in your head.>> ^TheSluiceGate:

Wouldn't the tilt of the tramp make it harder? Killing your momentum?

>> ^messenger:

Why did that happen? Was he just not fast enough? The trampoline didn't bottom out, so it's not about how big he is.


This happened because he wasted all his momentum by jumping akwardly onto the trampoline.

Notice the angle of his feet. It's actually much easier to see on this version.

Might be that he didn't bend his knees at all. That he's big makes the vid but I think anybody who jumped like that would fail.>> ^messenger:

Why did that happen? Was he just not fast enough? The trampoline didn't bottom out, so it's not about how big he is.

Why did that happen? Was he just not fast enough? The trampoline didn't bottom out, so it's not about how big he is.

MANY thanks dude
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*promote *skillful cycling

Later the trampoline ran away during a wind storm to go torture more unsuspecting people...

Cheers dude! Happy New Year to your good self!

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*promote

I think we agree that he implies that the outer limit is the electromagnetic force from the nucleus to the electron. But wait... he is pulling a fast on us.

This is a 1/r potential. So it isn't discrete at all. How is it like a box? This new question has answered part of our first question: He says that one end is the electromagnetic force. How can a continuous potential be treated like one that exists over a finite extent?


Or in other words: He says it is a box with well defined edges. But, it is more like valley (think of a bowling ball on a trampoline). A valley is not a box.

>> ^artician:

They act like they've never seen a trampoline go to the store before...


He said he was just going down to the store, but he never came back, trampolines make lousy husbands.

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This just happened at my house the other day - only it was my trampoline and it was stopped by some lattice work in our garden- smashed the lattice and bent the trampoline to crap - So much for both of them.

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