Baseball is still 100 years old in its technologies. And they still use human judgment to decide whether a ball goes inside of a rectangle. So if I'm swinging at 30 degrees, the ball is also 30 degrees. All my batsby goes to the ball. That's what you get.
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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