How to Hit Home Runs: Optimum Baseball Bat Swing Parameters for Maximum Range Trajectories
Mont Hubbard, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California at Davis, thinks that "mathematics is a way to understand how to be a better ballplayer."
Hubbard should know. He and two colleagues had a paper published (PDF) in the American Journal of Physics last summer entitled "How to Hit Home Runs: Optimum Baseball Bat Swing Parameters for Maximum Range Trajectories."
PDF file
http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/pob/AJ...
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