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Originally posted by BigUmp56
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Originally posted by NIump50
If the ball because of speed and backspin flattens out a 1/2 degree from it's downward trajectory isn't that for all practical purposes a rise?
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No, what I'm saying it a pitched baseball cannot flatten out as you suggest. The ball is in a constant state of deceleration and free fall from the nano second it's released.
If you have an understanding of slightly advanced mathematics this might interest you.
I'll try to make this my last post on the subject. If someone doesn't understand what I'm saying after looking at this calculation and reading the information in the following link, then I guess I can't help them
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~vawter/Physic...lvingMain.html
Tim.
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Sure if you put it that way how can I argue.
But you know what they say about figures
Seriously, as a sad troll I have to plead ignorance here.
When I'm behind the plate, the catcher calls a curve low and away but the pitcher throws a chest high 85 mph fastball and I'm watching the ball coming squarely between my eyes with no catcher to be found, the only 'free fall' I'm thinking of is my own.
Fri Mar 10, 2006, 06:04pm
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