PBS

Scientists Explore Physics of Baseball Feats

A home run is one of the biggest crowd-pleasers in baseball. A physicist, physics teacher and pitching coach talk about the physics behind a home run, a 90-mile-per-hour fastball and other baseball ...
CNET

The physics of baseball

SAN FRANCISCO--If you were at the Exploratorium here the other day, you might well have needed to be wary of flying objects. That's because, way in the back of the world-class science exploration ...
ABC Kcrg 9

Weather can impact the physics of baseball

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The weather can impacts players and spectators at a baseball game, but that’s not the only thing weather can impact. It can also impact the physics of baseball. There are ...
SF Station

Physics & Fastballs: The Science of Baseball

Presented by David Barker & Linda Shore $12 (CFI members $9) With baseball season in full swing, whose imagination doesn't turn naturally to dreams of green grass, peanuts and…science? Join us to hear ...
Washington Examiner

Professor visits USC to talk physics of baseball

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A physics professor from the University of Illinois is visiting the campus of the two-time collegiate baseball champion to talk about the mechanics of America’s favorite pastime ...
New Haven Register

Football and baseball: It s a matter of physics

You might say that all "obey the laws" of physics, but as far as we know, so does everything, including a stationary brick, a dead fly, a dust bunny and so on. And "laws" isn t really the right word.
Science Friday

What A Rare Baseball Collision Tells Us About The Physics Of The Game

Recently during a pre-game warmup, Phillies right fielder Bryce Harper was doing some batting practice when he hit a line drive to right field, and it collided with another ball in midair. Bryce ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Physics of Cheating in Baseball

The issue of juiced baseballs surfaces every couple years during the month of April due to a high rate of home runs hit. Ed Wolfstein / Icon SMI 756 / Ed Wolfstein / Icon SMI / Newscom Cheating in ...
EDN

Physics in Baseball

There are many physics exercises related to the game of baseball, which involve solving and calculating different parameters from objective data. Ball speed, energy, forces, distance, mass, angles and ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

The physics of baseball

A recent conversation about wind in Wrigley Field brought up the question of exactly how much wind can affect a hit baseball. Believe it or not, a lot of research has been done on the subject by ...
NPR

Physics of Baseball

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Mont Hubbard, a physicist at the University of California at Davis. He and some colleagues have published a paper in which they modeled the flight of a pitched baseball ...