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#ICYMI - Baseball - Home Run Physics

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The Effect of High Speed on the Sound of a Home Run

The sound is partly a signature of the fact that the ball, the bat hit the ball with high speed on the sweet spot of a bat. When you're off the sweet spot, the sound is really is different because of that vibration. It gets sound low, lower frequency sound. See this crack that you hear, has to do with the collision time. But collision time between the ball and the bat is something like a thousand of a second.

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