#ICYMI - Baseball - Home Run Physics

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🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice learn why it’s so hard to hit one out of the park, Guests: Geoff Blum, the Chicago White Sox legend and announcer for the Houston Astros, and Alan M. Nathan, Professor Emeritus of Physics. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Subscribe to our channels on: TuneIn: http://www.tunein.com/playingwithscience Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly.
0:04.0	And I'm Chuck Nice.
0:13.6	And this is playing with science.
0:16.6	Today we take a look at the science behind the moon shop, the kind that's powered by
0:20.3	the bat rather than a 7-5.
0:23.2	Yes, and guess what listeners, today it's all about the home run.
0:27.7	The physics of the bat, the ball, the brain.
0:30.4	And letting fly with the science will be physics professor Alan Nyson from the University
0:34.7	of Illinois.
0:35.9	But first, you know, if you've ever wondered what I was like, you have.
0:39.7	Well, you know what, but you haven't wondered like too much because you're a professional
0:43.7	athlete.
0:44.7	Oh, yeah, but the certain things you want to do in your life.
0:48.0	That's so true.
0:49.0	And one of them is probably the hardest thing they say it is to do in all of sports, which
0:56.1	is hit a home run.
0:58.1	Yes, yeah, actually, take it that far.
1:00.3	It goes to Italy.
1:01.3	Go to Rome, find a guy who was jogging, whack him with a bat.
1:05.6	That's called a Rome run.
1:09.5	Of course, we're talking about a home run, but then take that.
1:12.4	And then put it in the setting of a world series and then put it in the setting of, I don't
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