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The science of baseball : batting, bats, bat-ball collisions, and the flight of the ball
- Title
- The science of baseball : batting, bats, bat-ball collisions, and the flight of the ball / A. Terry Bahill, foreword by Greg Rybarczyk.
- Author
- Bahill, Terry
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Additional Authors
- Rybarczyk, Greg
- Description
- xxxix, 309 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- This book describes the dynamic collisions between baseballs, softballs, and bats, and the intricate modeling of these interactions, using only Newton's basic principles and the conservation laws of physics. Veteran baseball science author Terry Bahill explains models for the speed and spin of balls and bats and equations for bat-ball collisions at a level accessible to high school and undergraduate physics students, engineering students, and, most importantly, students of the science of baseball. Unlike other, more technical accounts of these phenomena that exhibit similar rigor, the models presented in this volume use only basic physical principles to describe simple collision configurations. Elucidating the most important factors for understanding bat performance--bat weight, moment of inertia, the coefficient of restitution, and characteristics of humans swinging the bats, Dr. Bahill also explains physical aspects of the ideal bat and the sweet spot.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword -- 1984 letter from Ted Williams -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Conflict of Interest -- Note on the Mathematics used in this book -- Types of Bat-ball Collisions -- Configurations of Bat-ball Collisions -- Equations for Bat-ball Collisions -- The BaConLaws Model for Bat-ball Collisions -- Alternative Models -- Synopsis -- The Ball in Flight Model -- Accuracy of simulations -- The bat's vertical sweetness gradient -- The advavntage of eye-hand cross dominance for baseball batters -- --Dénouement -- General Modeling Principles.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-11233
- ISBN
- 9783030030315
- 3030030318
- OCLC
- 1086346369
- Author
- Bahill, Terry, author.
- Title
- The science of baseball : batting, bats, bat-ball collisions, and the flight of the ball / A. Terry Bahill, foreword by Greg Rybarczyk.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Rybarczyk, Greg, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-11233