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“ONE SHOULD KNOW OUR GOALS AND HOW TO CHASE

THEM.FOR EVERYTHING ELSE IS A WASTE OF TIME”


WHY HAVE I CHOSEN ARCHERY AS A
SPORT TO LEARN ABOUT??
INFORMATION ABOUT ARCHERY
 Archery-The use of a stringed bow to propel arrows
towards a target-From the ancient Egyptians to the
Shang dynasty of China(1766-1027 BC),Attila the Hun’s
hordes to the great civilizations of the Assyrians
,Persians and Pathians, archery was widely utilized.
ARCHERY IN ANCIENT TIME

It is thought to go back thousands of years-


possibly even as far as the stone age 20,000
BC –with bows and arrows used by
numerous peoples over the millennia as a
means of hunting and warfare. From the
ancient Egyptians to the Shang dynasty of
China(1766-1027 BC),Attila the Hun’s hordes
to the great civilizations of the Assyrians
,Persians and Pathians, archery was widely
utilized.
ARJUN’S AIM

Story Time: Arjun and Archery


This is a very famous story from the Hindu mythology Mahabharata.
Dronacharya kept a small wooden bird on a tree at a distance. Then he asked all
the kids one by one to shoot the eye of the bird. Dronacharya said, there are
several things near the bird, can’t you see other things?

Arjuna was staring at the bird’s eye; he said “No teacher, I can’t see anything
other than bird’s eye”.

Dronacharya got happy with Arjuna’s response.


He asked him to shoot.

The arrow sprang from the bow and went straight into the bird’s eye. It was a
sharp shot. The bird knocked down on to the ground. wooden bird’s eye.
One should know our goals and how to chase them. For everything else is a
waste of time.

In archery, targets are marked with 10 evenly spaced concentric rings,


which have values 1 through 10 assigned to them.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE THINGS USED
IN ARCHERY USING MATH
 1 ring and 2 ring - white
 3 ring and 4 ring - black
 5 ring and 6 ring - blue
 7 ring and 8 ring - red
 9 ring, 10 ring and inner 10 ring - gold
MATHEMATICS IN ARCHERY
QUESTION: A circular archery target is 122cm in
diameter of a bull’s eye i.e., the innermost circle of
diameter 12.2cm,surrounded by 9 evenly spaced
concentric circles.
Assume that an arrow that hits a target equally likely to
land anywhere on the target. What is the probability
that the arrow will:-
A) Hit the bull’s eye
B) Land somewhere in the outermost 4 circles
C) Land within the 5th ring in from the outer edge.
ANSWER:
Let’s call the bulls eye as circle 1 and including circle #1,there
are 10 concentric circles.
Radius of circle 1 = 6.1 cm
Radius of circle 2 = 12.2 cm or 6.1*2 cm
And so on.
A)Probability of Hitting the bulls eye
P(bulls eye) = pi*6.12=37.21pi cm2
B)Land somewhere in the outermost 4 circles
P(outer 4 circles)= p(whole target – inner 6 circles)
=pi*R2 –pi*r2 = pi*612 – pi*36.62
The 36.6 is the radius of the first 6 circles or 6.1*6.
This gives us 2381.144pi cm2.
C)Land within the fifth ring in from the outer edge.
P(5th ring) – p(4th ring ). We want only the 5th ring so all other inner
rings must be subtracted out . We get pi*R2- pi*r2
=pi*30.52-pi*24.42=334.89pi cm2

MATH AND ARCHERY ARE CO-RELATED TO EACH OTHER


OUR RESEARCH AND CONCLUSION
 After doing a lot of research on the relationship of
math and archery, we decided to find the probability
of darts going in different rings using mathematics-
PROBABILITY OF HITTING THE TARGET=
Area of each Ring
Total area of the Target

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