"I want my path on the field to intersect this parabola moving through the air so that we arrive at the same place at the same time," he says. "That's not a trivial, you solve it with simultaneous equations, all right? I don't know if you remember that from your ninth grade math, all right?" He adds: "This is intuitive, but also add into that, I've also now got what I would call in-game intelligence."
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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