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What Are Pool Pockets

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Pool Pockets For this problem we were given a modified pool table, in which there are only corner pockets, no side pockets. We imagine there is a ball starting in the bottom left corner and shooting at a 45 degree angle and bouncing off the side of the table until it rolls into a hole. The question that I am trying to answer however is if I can predict how many times the ball will hit a wall before landing in a pocket and also which pocket it will land in. During this problem a learned many different things like where the ball would roll and how many rebounds it would take to roll in a pocket for any given dimension of pool table. I did not however come up with a super formula for the problem but a did find some pretty interesting rules. One

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