The Science of Baseball

<p>Explains how to select or design an optimal baseball or softball bat and create models for bat-ball collisions using only fundamental principles of mechanics from high school physics</p><p>Describes the results of the collision between baseball and bat using basic mathematics such as equations for the speed of the ball after the collision bat speed after the collision and bat rotation after the collision</p><p> </p><p>Adopts a lucid writing style using term</p>s accessible to high school and undergraduate students as well as non-technical aficionados of the science of baseball<p></p>