The physics of hitting a BasebAll
In this project, our group of four, Daria Hoang, Peter Hunt, Torin M. and I were assigned to do a physics explanation through video about a sports action of our choice. We first started to brainstorm what sport we would choose. Some of our choices were tennis, baseball, water polo and more. After deciding on the sport baseball we also agreed on the action of hitting the baseball with the bat after it is pitched. The next step for us was deciding what concepts we would solve for. Some of the concepts were velocity, acceleration, force, momentum and others. With these concepts, the script of our video was being roughly constructed. With it all we would have to do is fill in our numbers.
After our script we went out to the softball field and letting Peter swing at the baseball as much as he wanted and finally he had a perfect hit and the ball went out of park. Luckily we got his awesome hit on video. With our video of a perfect we began to calculate our concepts. We timed Peter hitting the ball, when it landed and also Torin pitching. We also had the distance of Peter hitting and how far Torin pitched. With this information we were able to fill in the blanks of our rough script. As soon as we could, our group began to record our script to put on to the actual video.
During this project, I enjoyed hitting the baseball, editing the video, and working with my group. I think that our group edited our video well, but the thing I really think that we did well was that Peter had two home runs. That was probably one of the coolest parts for me. From completing this project I learned a few new things about myself. First of all I finally learned that I can hit a baseball even though it didn't go very far I am very proud of myself for finally doing it. Another thing I learned from this project was how to import and convert YouTube videos and music onto a computer. But from this project there were challenges like making our video run smoothly and getting some of the videos from different phones to Daria's computer. Things that we could still work on for this project would be more videos of Peter and less of random people I think. For our group an improvement to our process next time would be choosing an easier way to film our videos.
After our script we went out to the softball field and letting Peter swing at the baseball as much as he wanted and finally he had a perfect hit and the ball went out of park. Luckily we got his awesome hit on video. With our video of a perfect we began to calculate our concepts. We timed Peter hitting the ball, when it landed and also Torin pitching. We also had the distance of Peter hitting and how far Torin pitched. With this information we were able to fill in the blanks of our rough script. As soon as we could, our group began to record our script to put on to the actual video.
During this project, I enjoyed hitting the baseball, editing the video, and working with my group. I think that our group edited our video well, but the thing I really think that we did well was that Peter had two home runs. That was probably one of the coolest parts for me. From completing this project I learned a few new things about myself. First of all I finally learned that I can hit a baseball even though it didn't go very far I am very proud of myself for finally doing it. Another thing I learned from this project was how to import and convert YouTube videos and music onto a computer. But from this project there were challenges like making our video run smoothly and getting some of the videos from different phones to Daria's computer. Things that we could still work on for this project would be more videos of Peter and less of random people I think. For our group an improvement to our process next time would be choosing an easier way to film our videos.
Concepts that were used in this video
1. Momentum=Mass x Velocity ; momentum also equals impulse. Impulse = Force x Time. The momentum of the baseball coming towards Peter was 7.18 kgm/s.
2. Velocity is speed with a direction. The ideal velocity, which is the velocity in a perfect world, was 42.784m/s. the real velocity, with all its factors, was 25.14m/s.
3. Force= Mass x Acceleration the force of the ball applied to the bat was 6,699 newtons.
4. Horizontal velocity is the speed of the ball only of the horizontal component, which is 21.77m/s. Vertical Velocity is the speed of the ball only of the horizontal component, which is . The shape the ball makes is called a parabola.
2. Velocity is speed with a direction. The ideal velocity, which is the velocity in a perfect world, was 42.784m/s. the real velocity, with all its factors, was 25.14m/s.
3. Force= Mass x Acceleration the force of the ball applied to the bat was 6,699 newtons.
4. Horizontal velocity is the speed of the ball only of the horizontal component, which is 21.77m/s. Vertical Velocity is the speed of the ball only of the horizontal component, which is . The shape the ball makes is called a parabola.