Snooker is a familiar game among students. Therefore, it is convenient to use this game as an example for studying the rigid body motion, and not only in the problems about head-on and lateral collisions, as it is usually seen in the texts of basic physics in the didatic books. In this article, we are going to analyse the effects of the cue on the ball and discuss the high and the low cue and to do the analysis of the motion of the projectile and target balls. Then, we will show that the place on the ball hit by the cue is decisive to the kind of motion which is acquired. We can say that snooker is a very useful application to the study of rigid body dynamics.
rigidy body; collisions; snooker; high cue and low cue
