The Physics of Hitting a Home Run

Publication date: Wed, Sep 26, 2007 - 1:39pm
Sept. 29, 2007
For a baseball fan, there are few things more satisfying than hearing that sharp distinctive crack of the bat announcing that the ball is on its way to the centerfield seats. For a physicist, there are few things more satisfying than figuring out how something works. And for a physicist who is also a baseball fan, It is pure ecstasy to have figured out much of what is going on during that very brief instant of time when ash meets cowhide. Alan Nathan, physics professor at the University of Illinois and charter member of the Red Sox Nation, will elucidate on this subject in his 5-College Physics Colloquium on Monday Oct. 1 at 7:30pm. He will be speaking at UMass in the Lederle Graduate Research Tower, Rm 1634. The public is welcome.