The Physics of Volleyball Forces, acceleration, gravity, projectile motion, and many other such things make volleyball the game that it is. Volleyball is a sport that includes many aspects of Physics some of these are very basic concepts while others are more advanced. Better understanding of these concepts could improve a player’s game. Physics explains and elucidates the basic fundamentals of volleyball and why one should perform them in such a way. Displacement is one of the basic concepts of Volleyball that need be understood for the reason that it is needed to understand later concepts. There are six players on the court and each one has a designated position. For example there are; left-side hitters, middle hitters, right-side hitters, and the same pattern follows for the defensive players. However, because there is a set rotation, a player will not always begin in their set position and they have to move to that place. This is called displacement. Displacement is defined as the change in position of an object ad can be either positive or negative depending on the starting point and the direction. The equation to represent displacement is d=d2-d1.D is the total movement between positions. The first floor position would be d1 and the second would be d2. Beyond the fact that players have frequent displacement, the ball itself has displacement. In fact this happens constantly as it moves from one player to another and from one side of the net to the other. Now that the ideas of displacement are understood velocity and acceleration can be found. Average velocity and average acceleration are complimentary of each other and are both important to the concept of volleyball. Velocity is defined as displacement in a given time. Once can find velocity by dividing distance by time. So the equation for velocity is: