A Short Summary: The Physics Of Baseball

Baseball is fairly popular sport that is played all around the world. Baseball is a game involving a bat and ball that is played between two teams taking turns batting and fielding. The batting team scores by hitting a ball that is thrown by the pitcher with a bat. Then running around a series of bases. The pitcher is the player who throws the baseball toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter. A skilled pitcher often throws a diffrent types of pitches to prevent the batter from hitting the ball. The most basic and commonly used pitch is a Fastball, where the pitcher throws the ball as hard as he can.

There are a variety of pitches a pitcher can throw ranging from a Fastball to a Knuckleball. Another type of pitch is a Palmball. The Palmball pitch is a type of changeup. It requires placing the baseball tightly in the palm or held between the thumb and ring finger and then throwing it as if throwing a fastball. This takes some of the velocity off the pitch, intending to trick the batter to make them swing before the ball reaches the plate. …show more content…
So the Physics of a palm ball are similar to a normal pitch. An object that is launched( by being thrown, kicked ,or otherwise) through the air is called a projectile. A projectile has an initial velocity (its speed and direction of motion). When a projectile is moving through the air, however, depending on the force of gravity, which causes it to move down toward Earth. It is also depending on the force of air resistance, which slows the projectile down. When air resistance is low, a projectile moves in the shape of a parabola. The path the ball follows is called its trajectory will determine how far it goes before it hits the ground. That's how the baseball