You Can Understand The Physics of Baseball!

We just love the grand old game and we just love teaching physics! We want to share this joy with you. Explore these links and have a blast. Please send comments to the address below

 
You Can Understand The Physics of Baseball! Activities
This is a collection of basic activities and experiments to help you understand the physics of baseball. They require almost no special equipment and very little math.

Kinematic data from PitchFX
Thanks to the MLB database and SportVision's technology, we share a collection of kinematic data for some selected pitches.

Baseball Links
Here are some of our favorite places for physics and baseball on the web.

Talking "Hall of Fame" Plaques
Here are the talking plaques and other QT movies from our talks as well as, some short biographies from the Hall of Fame. These are sure to spice up your physics class.

Put Me In Coach - The Physics of Baseball
Presented at the National Science Teachers Association Meeting in March 2011.
[ppt slides in pdf] [video of a similar talk]

Pitch Physics to Your Students
A PowerPoint of a talk presented at the American Asociation of Physics Teachers Meeting in November 2008.

Giants Pre-Game Show
Paul Robinson explains the Physics of Baseball on the Giants Pre-Game Show.

Dr. Baseball
Join our friend Dr. Baseball, as he briefly explains the magic behind great pitching.

Check out Fox Sports Infrared Camera at the 2011 World Series
Fox used an IR camera mounted in centerfield to take these amazing images. In the ninth inning the images entered the controversy on a potentially important call.

Baseball Papers from The Physics Teacher
Here are some papers we've written that use baseball to teach basic physics.

Sargent-Welch Physics of Baseball Activities
This is a collection of activities and experiments that use Sargent-Welch equipment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


This document is maintained by Dr. David Kagan ().