Monday, 28 November 2016

'MILLION DOLLAR ARM' AND PHYSICS



This movie is about a sport agent, JB Bernstein and his friend who want to find a few talented people in baseball game to include them in the professional league.
There are a lot of baseball games' scenes in this movie. So, I would like to relate the baseball game and physics concept. Based on my observation, two of physics concept in the baseball game are the momentum between the bat and ball and the trajectory of the baseball.
First of all, there is an elastic momentum between ball and the bat during the hit. Elastic momentum is defined as total momentum initial is equal to the total momentum final. I observed that bat performance depends on the interplay of the elasticity of the ball-bat collision, the inertial properties of the ball and bat, and the bat swing speed.

Next, I realized that the performance of the baseball game also depends on the flight of the baseball. Mistake on the flight of the baseball may cause trajectory of the batted ball sliced toward right field. In an ideal world, all baseballs would land at the same place. But, there is great variation in the distance, depending not only on the type of baseball (NCAA, MiLB, MLB) but even which baseball of a given type. An important conclusion is that variation in fly ball distance is due much more to ball-to-ball variation in the drag (for example, due to small differences in surface roughness) than to variation in spin.

BY MAIZATUL AQMARISHA

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