1. By: Tim Chartier April 2010 Marcos Murillo Bending a Soccer Ball with Math

2. Summary The article I read was to understand how a soccer player curves the ball. Also how can the ball move a lot better when some one kicks it. Mostly what counts in a soccer ball it is how it is stitched. For intense the soccer ball will move a lot faster if it was a perfect sphere and it didn’t have any stitching on it. Also it depends on the ball’s surface structure and texture. Like a World Cup soccer ball is made with a different panel designs.

3. Summary (cont.) The World Cup soccer ball it’s made so different that a soccer player who kicks free kicks can kick the ball at 70 mph, instead of a regular soccer ball that can only be 20 and 30 mph. There is also an equation that you can use to figure out the perfect way so the ball can go thorugh the air and make a good kick. But it’s very complicated and I didn’t get it.

4. How Soccer is math? This article is Math related because it says about the equation to do the perfect kick. It says about how they discover by using the New theory of light and colors.