In my childhood, the Yankee Stadium had the shortest and longest points coexisting on a field. So now because there's such analytics going on in baseball, they're tracking not only how far your home run goes but also what exit velocity is of the ball. They'll tell you how many stadiums your home run would be a home run and how many other stadiums it would not. Nobody's done that yet. Not even.
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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