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Ice skaters, ballet dancers, and basketball players executing vertical leaps often give the illusion of “hanging” almost motionless near the top of the leap. To see why this is, consider a leap to maximum height h. Of the total time spent in the air, what fraction is spent in the upper half (i.e., at
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