You have to have an extra kind of sense sometimes because you do see some people. I'm saying that coordinates. That complete extra sense is common in our species. It's why you have like weekend softball games with middle-aged men, okay? Where they can still catch the ball running in the outfield and they were never professional. Everybody can run and be where the ball is when it lands. If they miss it, they weren't fast enough. And so there's a parabola. We have an equation for that. Okay?"
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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