The Physics of Baseball

Spring is no longer in the air, and the grass is worn down. But excitement is building as the boys of summer become the play-off boys of October with the end of the Major League Baseball season. Please join two veteran physics teachers as they explain - and demonstrate - the physical nuances of the game: how a curve ball curves, why a 550-foot homer is so unlikely, how the half-millisecond collision of ball-on-bat is so beautifully complex. From aerodynamics to energy conservation, and from Magnus force to center of percussion, you be the umpire as simple physics illuminates our national pastime.  This event is presented in partnership with Wonderfest, the Bay Area Beacon of Science.

Speakers: Tucker Hiatt, long-time physics teacher, Stanford Visiting Scholar (emeritus!), and Wonderfest Founding Director.; and Marc "Zeke" Kossover, long time physics teacher, Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow to the National Science Foundation and Teacher in Residence and Co-Director of the Leadership Program at the Exploratorium.