The net speed is of the ball is less than that of your bat. If I swing the bat horizontally as you're trained in little league, right? Good level swing. And the ball goes up at like a 45 degree angle,. All right. Some of the speed of your bat went to send the ball forward and some go to send it upwards. Now watch what happened. This should be a little place on the on the when you're keeping scoring baseball for this. That's the math that's in this.
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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