Science Or Myth? Breaking Curveballs In Baseball
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 17:10
in Physics & Chemistry
Baseball players will tell you that a fastball can rise - and elementary physics says it can also, the same way an airplane rises because the teardrop shape of a wing causes air to go over the top faster than below the flatter bottom, 'sucking' it into the air. Sure, if the baseball is going 200 MPH it can happen. But they don't. read more