Abstract
New measurements are presented of the lift on a spinning baseball for speeds in the range 50-110 mph and spins 1500-4500 rpm. The experiment utilizes a pitching machine to project the baseball horizontally; a high-speed motion capture system to measure the initial velocity and angular velocity and to track the trajectory over ∼5 m of flight; and a ruler to measure the total distance traversed by the ball. The lift coefficients are extracted from the data and compared to with previous measurements or parametrizations. © 2006 Springer-Verlag New York.
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Nathan, A. M., Hopkins, J., Chong, L., & Kaczmarski, H. (2006). The effect of spin on the flight of a baseball. In The Engineering of Sport 6 (Vol. 1, pp. 23–28). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-46050-5_5
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