The science of hoop shooting involves many different factors: depth perception, speed, launch angle, and trajectory of the ball in flight. Another thing that can significantly affect your jump shot is if you shoot with only one or two hands (shooting hand and stabilizing hand, releasing the ball with only the shooting hand, but using the other hand to stabilize the ball from basketball). This could change your accuracy, shooting speed, ball security and release. With all of these factors at play, shooting one or two hands can be the difference between winning all your basketball games or losing them all. In the next few paragraphs I will talk about some of the factors that can affect a shot. First, depth perception can affect a shot, but it depends on who is shooting the ball. An experiment was performed to evaluate how depth perception can affect a shot. They asked five people to each shoot a basketball ten times with both eyes open. After that, they had them shot with an eyepatch over their right eye. They found that everyone got different results. The experiment revealed that two of the shooters were better with the eye patches, two were better without the eye patch, and one had no change in results. They observed difficulty catching the ball more than shooting with the eye patches. Second, ball speed can also affect the shot. The speed of something is the speed of the object in a given direction. Ball speed has a major impact on how far the ball travels and how accurate it is. If there isn't enough speed, the shot may miss the rim or bounce off the front of the rim. If there is too much speed, the shot might bounce off the middle of the paper as they can, to improve their shooting ability. Works Cited Jenkins, TJ (2013, October 3). Sports Science Part I: Shooting a Basketball. In Science in our world: certainties and controversies. Retrieved March 11, 2014 from http://www.personal.psu.edu/afr3/blogs/siowfa13/2013/10/sports-science-part-i-shooting-a-basketball.htmlDepth perception and basketball . (February 13, 2014). At the Science Club. Retrieved March 11, 2014, from https://scienceclub.northwestern.edu/journal/third-perception-and-basketballThe Physics of Basketball. (nd). In The Physics of Basketball. Retrieved March 11, 2014 from http://www2.hesston.edu/Physics/Basketball/Paperpg.htmHuman Performance Laboratory, University of Calgary. (1997, October 15). Optimal trajectory for the basketball free throw. In PubMed.gov. Accessed March 11, 2014 from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9386207