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How to Hit Home Runs: Optimum Baseball Bat Swing Parameters for Maximum Range Trajectories

November 8, 2005 by diana

Mont Hubbard, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California at Davis, thinks that "mathematics is a way to understand how to be a better ballplayer."

Hubbard should know. He and two colleagues had a paper published (PDF) in the American Journal of Physics last summer entitled "How to Hit Home Runs: Optimum Baseball Bat Swing Parameters for Maximum Range Trajectories."

PDF file
http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/pob/AJ...

TechTV page regarding this story...
http://www.techtv.com/news/scitech/story...

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