"We know the speed of the pitch because there's a straight on looking straight on looking at the ball as it comes down the alley. So that's not a problem," he says. "But anything less, they put a camera in the mound and watch it straight down behind themBecause you can measure it either way, the speeds. No, no, I'm taking for the for the hitter to get that head on with that that wouldn't track at all." He adds: 'No, he needs to get the exit of the last day'
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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