Using Statcast to lift the discussion of projectile motion
Abstract
Home run data from Major League Baseball's Statcast can be described by adding a lift force to the equations of projectile motion commonly used in undergraduate computational physics courses. We discuss how the Statcast data can be implemented in the classroom.
- Publication:
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American Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1119/1.4975302
- Bibcode:
- 2017AmJPh..85..313S