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The Physics of Baseball
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Subject SciencePhysics
Grade Level Grades 9-12
Resource Type Lesson Plan
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About This Lesson

Why does a curve ball curve? Where is the best spot on a bat to hit a baseball? At UC Berkeley, a team of undergrads is experimenting with velocity, force, and aerodynamics. But you won't find them in a lab – they work on a baseball diamond, throwing fast balls, sliders and curve balls. QUEST discovers how the principles of physics can make the difference between a strike and a homerun.

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Lesson Plan
February 13, 2020
1.48 MB
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Out of the Park: The Physics of Baseball | KQED QUEST
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Standards

Students know that when forces are balanced, no acceleration occurs; thus an object continues to move at a constant speed or stays at rest (Newton's first law).
Students know how to apply the law F = ma to solve one-dimensional motion problems that involve constant forces (Newton's second law).
Students know Newton's laws are not exact but provide very good approximations unless an object is moving close to the speed of light or is small enough that quantum effects are important.
Students know that when one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object always exerts a force of equal magnitude and in the opposite direction (Newton's third law).

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