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The MIT Science of Baseball program encourages students to learn baseball-related math and physics and then apply what they've learned out on the ballfield.
The students typically learn why a curveball curves, a knuckleball knuckles, and how the force-velocity curve affects muscles and the human skeleton.
Can any member illustrate/demonstrate some of the math involved in baseball?
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Interesting article on a theme - "Designing a Baseball Cover" by Richard B. Thompson (Thompson, R. "Designing a Baseball Cover." Coll. Math. J. 29, 48-61, 1998). The author of article does in the end a note, about that "All such work in this paper was done with the software package Mathcad Plus 6.0".
Dan, hello!
Here you can find a Mathcad file with a solution of initial value problem - "Find the baseball trajectory, given the release velocity and angle":
Same calculation on Mathcad Server:
Interesting article on a theme - "Designing a Baseball Cover" by Richard B. Thompson (Thompson, R. "Designing a Baseball Cover." Coll. Math. J. 29, 48-61, 1998). The author of article does in the end a note, about that "All such work in this paper was done with the software package Mathcad Plus 6.0".
Vladimir, that article was extremely helpful. I attached it for reference
Here are Richard B. Thompson's original Mathcad files updated to Mathcad 15.
Mona
Thanks, Mona!