Determination of Drag and Lift Coefficients for a Spinning Baseball

Few experiments have been carried out in the past to deter mine the effect of the lift and the drag forces on the trajectory of a ball used in any game. In a baseball game, it was reported that sometimes the ball took a sharp turn aburptly in the region of 15 to 20 feet from the home plate. This ind...

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Main Author: Parekh, M. B.
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 1972
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7163
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8163&context=etd