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Why can a person hit a ball farther if it is pitched faster than if it is pitched slowly?
For a batter, there’s another way to understand the conservation of momentum: The faster the pitch and the faster the swing, the farther the ball will fly. A faster pitch is harder to hit than a slower one, but a batter who can do it may score a home run.
What makes a baseball go further?
Gravity is always pulling downwards on the ball. If you hit the ball straight up, it spends quite a bit of time in the air, but doesn’t travel far from home plate. Air resistance depends on humidity, temperature, and altitude: To make a ball go farther, you want high humidity, high temperature, and high altitude.
Why do baseballs go farther than softballs?
Baseball fields are naturally bigger than softball because the dimensions of the baseball, which weighs about five ounces and is nine inches around, cause it to fly farther. Isn’t physics fun? Softball bats are typically longer, but baseball bats have a larger diameter to strike the ball with.
Does pitch speed affect distance?
Dr. Nathan also explained during our Science of Baseball conversation that while each mph of pitch speed adds 1 ft. to the distance, each mph of bat speed adds 1.2 mph of exit speed.
Can you hit a fastball further?
Usually it doesn’t. If you want to get into the actual physics, then technically, yes when a hitter squares up a fastball (especially a hard one) there’s going to be more kinetic energy and a greater trampoline effect so the ball will have the potential to travel further.
What happens to the baseball bat when it hits a ball?
A significant portion of the initial kinetic energy was lost to friction forces during the compression and relaxation of the ball while is distorts during impact. During the collision the barrel of the bat compresses and expands, appearing to throw the ball away.
What baseball goes the farthest?
Major League Baseball’s longest verifiable home run distance is about 575 feet (175 m), by Babe Ruth, to straightaway center field at Tiger Stadium (then called Navin Field and before the double-deck), which landed nearly across the intersection of Trumbull and Cherry.
Do baseballs go further than softballs?
Baseballs are thrown at a much higher speed, but the distance from the mound to the plate is 60 feet, six inches, compared to 40 feet in softball. The inverse differences even the playing field.
What is the fastest baseball pitch?
105.1 MPH by Aroldis Chapman
Pitch/Fastest
Why does a baseball go faster than a kickball?
Bat speed is the dominant force and more predictive than the speed of the ball, which for a Major League fastball will be in the 90s or low 100s in mph, with higher speeds making a total travel difference around ten feet compared with slower fastballs.
Does a baseball bat slow down when it hits a ball?
The answer here is Yes, but not much. Upon contact, there will be impulse between the bat and the ball and this impulse speeds the ball up and slows the bat down. However, according to Newton’s 3rd law of motion, which is the action-reaction of forces, says the ball is also hitting the bat, so the bat must slow down.