As London is heading for the 2012 Olympics, it's not just athletes who are gearing up for action. Engineers, too, are working hard to produce the cutting-edge sporting equipment that guarantees record performances. If you're a tennis player, your most important piece of equipment is your racket. Over recent decades new materials have made tennis rackets ever bigger, lighter and more powerful. So what kind of science goes into designing new rackets?

Concepts

functions

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Additional Tags

cross-curricular math activity, types of functions, millennium mathematics project, linear function

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)