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If you are interested on doing a trick shot, you better have an idea on how it could be possible. When aiming for a shot, you think on where the balls will go after the contact. The directions of the balls depend on their respective centers. This is quite true in general and easy to imagine if only two balls are involved. If you consider the frictional effects as well as more balls, that would seem complicated.

But this section is for the basics. Let’s have two to three balls for examples. If the cue ball comes in contact with an isolated target ball, the target would go in the direction that connects the two balls’ centers. You could make an imaginary line for this purpose.

In another scenario, if the cue ball targets ball A and ball A has contact with ball B, where would the target balls go? The ball B would be in the direction that connects ball A and ball B centers while ball A would be on the tangent line’s direction drawn between the two target balls or simply perpendicular to ball B path.