Gary Sick: Is it intuitive or is it a sixth sense? He says children anticipate where the ball will be factoring in the rate at which they close in on the ball so they can get there at the same time. "If you ran in a way that you didn't close your distance to it, you died because you were not fed," he 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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