"I'm just going to let the bat touch the ball and that's it. And then, you know, and I'll go from there," he says of catching fly balls. "That is a simultaneous physics equation that you do in physics 101 and humans do it in their head almost intuitively." 'This this feature of the human mind that I'm telling you about is so widespread that I think it's something inherent in just what it is to be here,' baseball legend adds.
What is exit velocity? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore parabolas, measuring the speed of an object using the Doppler effect, and other physics in baseball.
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