Things You Thought You Knew – What Is Exit Velocity?

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🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What is exit velocity? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore parabolas, measuring the speed of an object using the Doppler effect, and other physics in baseball.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is StarTalk Sports Edition.
0:17.0	Things you thought you knew.
0:19.0	Yeah, got Gary Riley, Gary.
0:22.0	Hey, Neil.
0:23.0	Chuck, nice, my co-hosts.
0:25.0	Yeah.
0:26.0	Yeah, that's happening.
0:30.0	All right, guys, guys.
0:32.0	So we're going to do some explaining today.
0:35.0	And I want to talk about the exit velocity of home runs in baseball.
0:40.0	You know, now that they can report this information, they do.
0:46.0	You mean like when you hit a baseball into space?
0:51.0	What?
0:54.0	So that would be a skate velocity.
0:57.0	Oh, that's the skate velocity.
1:00.0	Oh, okay.
1:01.0	Nobody's done that yet.
1:03.0	Not even.
1:04.0	Yeah, I was going to say, how many steroids does it take to make that happen?
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